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latest honour was the award of the Bolitho Medal by the Royal 

 Geological Society of Cornwall in 1910, for his papers on the 

 geology and palaeontology of that county. 



The affairs of the Palseontograplrical Society took up much of" 

 his time, and he served as Treasurer for ten years. 



Corals were the first group of fossils that he investigated, and 

 lie continued to work on them for many years ; but almost at the 

 same time he began to work on the smaller bodies, Annelid-jaws, 

 and Conodonts. Later on Crinoids, Foraminifera, and Algae came 

 in for attention. His chief work, however, was on two groups, 

 Sponges and Radiolaria, starting with the former in his ' Inau- 

 gural Dissertation ' for the degree of Ph.D. at Munich, ' Fossil 

 Sponge-Spicules from the Upper Chalk,' a single flint from 

 Horstead (in Norfolk) yielding the material for an elaborate essay 

 o£ eighty pages and five plates. 



His continued labour made him our chief authority on fossil 

 sponges, to which result two important works largely contributed, 

 the great Catalogue of Fossil Sponges in the British Museum 

 (18S3), and the Monograph on Fossil Sponges published by the 

 Paleeontographical Society (1886-1912). Besides these, however, 

 a large number of papers from his pen appeared in our Quarterly 

 Journal and in other periodicals. 



Turning to Radiolaria, on which his first paper appeared in 1890, 

 he made that class of minute organisms almost his own private 

 preserve, a host of other papers following, contributed to our 

 own Society and to various other Societies. 



In both these cases Sponges and Radiolaria, Hinde was not 

 content merely to describe the fossils ; but he paid much attention 

 (often with other workers) to the character and distribution of the 

 beds in which they were found, as, for instance, in his paper on 

 Beds of Sponge-remains in the Greensands. published in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1886. and in many 

 papers relating to Devon and Cornwall. 



Among more general works is the ' Report on the Materials from 

 the Borings at the Funafuti Atoll' (1904), in which the borings 

 and the cores from them are described in detail, as well as the 

 Foraminifera, Corals, Algoe, and other organisms that were found, 

 with tables showing their distribution. 



Hinde Avas a first-rate observer, both in the field and in the 

 study, not prone to draw conclusions without careful consideration, 

 keen in controversy, sharp in analysis; and so his Avork Avas thorough. 



