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his transfer from the Survey, early in 1912, to the Welsh Inspec- 

 torate of Schools. Although it was known that he had latterly 

 suffered a failure in health, his untimely death on March 30th,. 

 1918, came as a shock to his friends and former colleagues. 



Thomas's work as a palaeontologist was marked, above all, hy 

 thoroughness and soundness. His patience and industry enabled 

 him to overcome many difficulties, and to complete laborious 

 researches which involved great attention to details. That this 

 faculty for dealing with minutise was combined with broader 

 critical powers is fully demonstrated in his published writings, the- 

 most important of which are his well-known studies of Carboniferous 

 brachiopods, issued in 1910 and 1914 by the Geological Survey. 



Ivor Thomas was an ardent Welsh nationalist, and was keenly^ 

 interested in the problems of education within the Principality. 

 The lure of his homeland led him to relinquish a scientific career 

 of great promise, and one in which he had already established him- 

 self. His loss is deplored by all who were associated with him in 

 his geological work ; more particularly by those former colleagues 

 who, by daily contact with him, could best appreciate his amiability 

 and sincerity of character. [F. L. K.] 



Aethue Edmuxd Victoe Zealley, Assoc. R.C.S., was born 

 in Worcestershire on March 1st, 1886. His parents' desire was 

 that he should devote himself to Chemistry, the science followed 

 by his grandfather and uncles on his mother's side. He received 

 his early education at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, where 

 his natural bent towards Geology exhibited itself in his pleasure 

 in collecting shells and fossils. He proceeded to the Royal College- 

 of Science, South Kensington, where he studied under Prof. Watts 

 and obtained his Associateship in Geology. He remained for some- 

 time at the School of Mines as a demonstrator and lecturer. 



In 1909 he accepted the appointment of Curator & Geologist 

 to the Bulawayo Museum on the retirement of Mr. F. P. Mennell* 

 and in this capacity he did much useful work in determining- 

 minerals and reporting on mineral occurrences. 



When the Geological Survey of Rhodesia was started under the 

 leadership of Mr. H. B. Maufe, Zealley was the first geologist to be 

 appointed, and he began work in 1911. Among the results of his 

 labours already made known in the publications of the Geological 

 Survey of Southern Rhodesia are reports on the Selukwe, Gatooma, 

 and Umtali Gold-Belts and on the .^omabula Gravels, but a con- 



