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and his own enthusiastic spirit was communicated to many of his- 

 students. From the geological point of view, his chief work was 

 done on the abundant plant-remains of the English Coal Measures, 

 but he found time also to deal with collections from many other 

 quarters — from India, Australia, Tasmania,- New Zealand, Rhodesia,, 

 South Africa, and Newfoundland. Using the plants as guide- 

 fossils, he appealed to them confidently in problems of stratigraphy 

 and classification, applying this method, in particular, to the coal- 

 fields of Cumberland, South Staffordshire, the Forest of Wyre, the- 

 Forest of Dean, and Kent, and to the Culm Measures of Devon and 

 Cornwall. His industry was untiring, as is shown by the amount 

 of work that he published during the seventeen years of his active 

 career. A list of his geological and pakeontological writings given 

 in a recent number of the ' Geological Magazine ' (dec. 6, vol. v,. 

 1918, pp. 128-31) contains 58 items, exclusive of purely botanical 

 works. He contributed seven papers to our Quarterly Journal,, 

 besides some appendices to papers by other authors. The ' Philo- 

 sophical Transactions ' and Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 contain five papers by him ; several others were published in 

 the Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers ; and he- 

 was a frequent contributor to the ' Geological Magazine,' and to 

 botanical and other scientific journals. Among his separately 

 published works are a British Museum ' Catalogue of Fossil Plants 

 of the GJossopteris Flora ' (1905), ' The Natural History of Coal' 

 (Cambridge, 1911: translated into Russian, 1914), 'The Coast 

 Scenery of North Devon ' (London, 1911). The value and promise 

 of his work was recognized early by the Council, who in 1905- 

 made an Award to him from the Lyell Fund. He was elected a 

 Fellow of our Society in 1901, and was also a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society. In 1911 he was made an Honorary Member of' 

 the New Zealand Institute, in appreciation of his researches on 

 Australasian plant-fossils. He died on June 14th, 1918, leaving 

 a widow, herself an accomplished botanist, and one daughter. 



George Steuart Corstorphine, B.Sc, Ph.D., Principal of 

 the Soutli African School of Mines & Technology, Johannesburg 

 was born in Edinburgh on November 19th, 1865, and was trained 

 as a teacher at Moray House. For two years he taught in schools 

 in Birkenhead and Edinburgh, and then proceeded to Edinburgh 

 University, where he studied biology and geology, taking the 

 degree of B.Sc. in 1891. He won the Baxter Scholarship in Science 



