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was engaged in scholastic work until 1873, when he was created 

 Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands. Already D.C.L. 

 of Oxford and Durham, he received the diploma of D.D. from the 

 latter University in 1873. Returning to England in 1881, he 

 held for some years the benefice of Sibstone (Leicestershire), and 

 was actively engaged in varied duties in the diocese of Peterborough. 

 A keen student of geology, he gathered together, while in Barbados, 

 a collection of fossils which he subsequently presented to the 

 British Museum, and after his return to England he made a further 

 collection, part of which was given to the Museum at Oxford and 

 the remainder to University College, London. He was a man of 

 broad culture, his interests ranging widely in art as well as in 

 science, including particularly the study of monastic foundations 

 and remains, and a deep appreciation of music. His charm of 

 personality and sympathetic feeling rendered his companionship 

 always delightful, and among geologists he could count many 

 devoted friends. He served on the Council of our Society in 1901- 

 1903, and many terms on the Council of the Palaeontographical 

 Society. He died suddenly at Gloucester on September 25th, 1918, 

 at the age of 85. 



The eminent Australian explorer and statesman, Lord Forrest 

 (better known as Sir Johx Forrest), whose Fellowship in the 

 Society began in 1883, was a representative of the close bond which 

 has always existed between geographical and geological studies in 

 their broader aspects, but has tended to become less evident under 

 the growth of specialization in both. 



Born in 1847 near Bunbury (Western Australia), Forrest spent 

 his whole life in the service of his State and country. Educated at 

 Perth ( W. A.), he entered the Survey Department there in 1865, and 

 in 1869, at the age of 22, made his first plunge into the unknown 

 interior, in search of traces of the lost explorer, Leichardt. The 

 following year he started again, in charge of an exploring party 

 which pushed across the desert around the head of the Great 

 Australian Bight, and succeeded in reaching South Australia. In 

 1874 he led another expedition by a more northerly route through 

 the heart of Western Australia, and emerged safehr in the Lake Eyre 

 country after a hard and dangerous journey of 2000 miles, largely 

 on foot. The scientific importance of these explorations of the 

 desert interior was recognized by the Boyal Geographical Society 

 in the award of the Patron's Medal to Forrest in 1876. In 1883 



