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several parts of Newfoundland, and in 1907 brought together his 

 knowledge in a geological map of the whole island on the scale of 

 8 miles to an inch. His contributions to geological literature 

 consist principally of a series of Annual Reports, mostly brief, and 

 some pamphlets on the mineral resources of the island. He was 

 particularly interested in the Coal Measures, and reported on the 

 attempts to find workable coal-seams. He paid much attention 

 also to ethnology, and published in 1914 a book on the culture and 

 remains of the Beothics, the aboriginal inhabitants of the island. 



Albert Homer Pubdue was born near Yankestown (Indiana), 

 on March 29th, 1861, and passed his studentship at the Indiana 

 State Normal School, Terre Haute. After a few }^ears of scholastic 

 work, he entered the Stanford University, California, where he took 

 the A.B. degree, and carried out some geological field-work in the 

 San Francisco peninsula. In 1896 he was elected Professor of 

 Geology (afterwards of Mining also) in the University of Arkansas, 

 and in 1907 became ex officio State Geologist of the Arkansas 

 Survey. In 1912 he took the post of State Geologist of Tennessee, 

 in which he continued until his death, after a short illness, at 

 Nashville (Tennessee), on December 12th, 1917. Quiet and un- 

 assuming in manner, he was recognized as an excellent teacher of 

 geology both in the lecture-room and in the field. Among the 

 subjects of his numerous papers and reports (see Bibliography by 

 G. H. Ashley in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. vol. xxix, 1918, pp. 60-64) 

 may be mentioned the Glacial Drift of Indiana (1895), the Charles- 

 town Earthquake (1896), Valleys of Solution in North Arkansas 

 (1901), Physiography of Boston Mountain, Arkansas (1901), 

 the Slates of Arkansas (1909), and the Zinc-Deposits of North- 

 Eastern Tennessee (1912). He was a member of several American 

 scientific societies, LL.D. of Arkansas University, and was elected 

 a Fellow of our Society in 1908. 



The Right Reverend John Mitchinson, an active Fellow of 

 the Society until his resignation a few years ago owing to advancing 

 age, was born at Durham on September 23rd, 1833, educated at 

 Durham School, gained a scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford, 

 and passed through his collegiate training with high distinction, 

 both in Classics and in Natural Science, proceeding to the M.A. 

 degree in 1857. He was elected to a Fellowship of his College in 

 1856 and retained it until 1881, was made Honorary Fellow in 

 1882, and became Master of Pembroke in 1899. From 1857 he 



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