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Avas invalided home. In 1917 lie underwent a severe operation, 

 from which he recovered sufficiently to resume his civil duties, but 

 was carried off by a relapse on April 26th, 1918, in his 29th year. 



Lieut. Eric Ware Simmons, another promising University 

 College man, was born in 1893, educated at the Whitgift Grammar 

 School, Croydon, and in 1911 entered University College, where he- 

 obtained the Morris Prize and the University Scholarship in Geology 

 in 1913. He took his degree in 1914 with first-class honours in 

 Geology, and afterwards acted as Demonstrator in that subject. 

 He went out to Gallipoli in 1915, the year of his election into our 

 Society, and was posted 'missing' after the landing at Suvla Bay 

 on August 11th, 1915. 



Leonard J. Bates, a mining engineer, of the 18th B-. F. D. 

 Company, was killed in action in France on November 10th, 1918.. 

 He had been elected a Fellow in 1904. 



Captain Charles Kenelm Uigry Jones, also a mining- 

 engineer, and a Fellow since 1901, died in Siberia on September 

 25th, 1918. 



The drowning of Dr. Lewis Motset, Captain K.A.M.C, who- 

 went down with the hospital ship ' Glenart Castle,' torpedoed in. 

 the Bristol Channel on February 26th, 1918, was a painful shock 

 to us. In any circumstance of War, our sorrow for friends 

 lost is aggravated by a sense of avoidable calamity, but in this 

 case there was the added bitterness that the lives were taken in. 

 defiance of humane conventions. 



Dr. Moysey was born in 1869, educated at Repton School, and 

 graduated at Caius College, Cambridge. Qualifying in medicine, 

 he was for many years in practice at Nottingham. On the out- 

 break of War he was called to the National Service, and was allotted 

 regimental work in this country until last year, when he was, 

 detailed for dutv in the Fast. He met his doom at the be°*innino" 

 of the voyage. 



During his busy years in Nottingham Dr. Moysey's inherent 

 interest in palaeontology became centred upon the fossils of the 

 Coal Measures, and Avhatever time he could spare was spent in 

 searching for them and in preparing, them for his cabinet. His 

 general scientific knowledge led him to appreciate accurately the 

 relative importance of the specimens, so that anything rare or 



