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William Henry Sutcliffe, who was born in 1855, received 

 his education at Manchester Grammar School and Owens College. 

 Though engaged in business as a cotton manufacturer, he was 

 energetic in the investigation of the archaeology and geology of his 

 own neighbourhood. The remains of Prehistoric Man to be found 

 near Rochdale excited his keenest interest, and the collections made 

 by him are a notable feature in the museums at Rochdale and 

 Manchester University. Possessed of a keen critical faculty, he 

 found himself unable to accept the authenticity of 'Eoliths,' or 

 the postulated antiquity of the Galley Hill and Ipswich skeletons. 



As a collector of fossils his services have proved of great value, 

 more especially in elucidating the fauna and flora of the Coal 

 Measures. 



Mr. Sutcliffe was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1903, and in 1904 contributed to the Journal a joint paper on 

 JEoscorpins spartTiensis, sp. nov. He was a member of several 

 local societies, and in 1912 President of the Rochdale Literary & 

 Scientific Society. He died on August 18th, 1913. 



Philip Lutley Sclater was bom on November 4th, 1829. 

 He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and in 1855 was called 

 to the Bar. The study of ornithology, however, proved more 

 attractive than that of law, and led to Sclater becoming one of 

 the most noted zoologists of his day. His connexion with the 

 Zoological Society extended over a period of 63 years, during 43 of 

 which he served as Secretary. 



Sclater's division of the earth's surface into regions based on 

 the distribution of birds, though not now adopted in its entirety, 

 served usefully in its time to direct the labours of geologists who 

 were studying the past distribution of animals. These regions, 

 however, were regarded by him as separate centres of creation ; it 

 remained for Darwin and Wallace to explain the distribution 

 of life. 



Sclater was elected into the Royal Society in 1861, and into the 

 Geological Society in 1878. He died on June 27th, 1913. 



Frank Johnstone Mitchell, who was elected into our 

 Society so long ago as 1859, was educated at St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and was professionally engaged at Newport (Monmouth- 

 shire). Antiquarian research proved to be the main occupation of 

 such time as he could spare from business. 



He died on October 11th, 1913, at the age of 90, 

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