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' Geologische Alpenforschungen ' (1900-1908), Rothpletz carried 

 out much good work on a wide range of subjects. He was particu- 

 larly interested in the Calcareous Alga?, and studied them both in 

 the Alps and in Gothland. He wrote also upon the Trias and Jura 

 of the Dutch East Indies, the marine formations of the Canary 

 Islands, the Norwegian sparagmite, the flora and fauna of the 

 Culm of Saxony, the deformation of Ammonites, and other matters. 

 He visited this country on several occasions to take part in scientific 

 meetings, and his exuberance in debate and genial comradeship in 

 the field will be remembered by many geologists among us, who 

 will have found it difficult ever to think of him as an enemy. 



From our Home List, b} ir the death of George Jennings Hinde 

 we are deprived of an old colleague who served often on our 

 Council, an active worker in Science, and an honoured participant 

 in our Meetings. 



George Jennings Hinde was born in Norwich in 1839, and 

 was educated at the Grammar School in that city. 



His first occupation was farming ; but connexion with the 

 Woodward family and lectures by Pengelly and others soon led 

 him to study more than the mere surface of the Earth. 



In 1862 he went to the Argentine Republic, where he became 

 a sheep-farmer and remained for some years. After returning to 

 England for a short time he went to North America, and there 

 began geological work on his own account, as well as studying 

 under Nicholson, at Toronto. His first paper, in 1875, was a joint 

 one with Nicholson, ' On the Fossils of the Clinton . . . Forma- 

 tions of Ontario.' After this he wrote on Glacial beds in Canada, 

 but soon turned to the pakeontological work that was to be the 

 continuous product of his long life. 



He was elected a Fellow of our Societ}^ in 1874, and served on 

 the Council for many years, doing much work connected with 

 finance and other business matters, as Avell as contributing largely 

 to our scientific proceedings. The Wollaston Fund was awarded 

 to him in 1882, for his American work, and in 1897 the Lyell 

 Medal, for his valuable researches, especially on ' Fossil Sponges 

 and other minute bodies preserved in cherts, in various formations,' 

 the President, W. H. Hudleston, adding that he had placed him- 

 self ' in the foremost rank amongst those who have devoted 

 themselves to the study of minute fossil organisms.' 



He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 189G. His 



