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■siderable amount of his work is still unpublished. He was on 

 the point of leaving for England when he was struck down with 

 influenza which was followed by pneumonia, and he succumbed 

 after an illness of 10 days on October 28th, 1918, aged 32. His 

 wife, a lady of great literary ability, had predeceased him by a few 

 months. By his death we have lost a keen and conscientious 

 worker on the threshold of his career. [B. L.] 



George Marmadtjke Cockin, long connected with the coal- 

 industry of the Brereton district of South Staffordshire, was 

 born on February 2nd, 1852, at Birmingham where his father 

 was Rector of St. George's. Educated first at King Edward's 

 School in that city and later at Richmond (Yorkshire), he was 

 trained as a mining engineer at Monkwearmouth, and subsequently 

 held several appointments in the county of Durham. He next 

 turned to silver-mining in Mexico and then to farming in Dakota ; 

 but, returning to England, he obtained a mining post at Ellistown 

 in Leicestershire, relinquishing it in 1895 on being made mining 

 engineer to the Marquis of Anglesey, an office he held until his 

 death. 



He was a Fellow of this Society for 14 years, and in 1906 

 published in our Journal an important paper in which he proved 

 the previously unsuspected occurrence of Carboniferous Limestone 

 beneath the Coal Measures of the Cannock-Chase district of South 

 Staffordshire. In papers published elsewhere he dealt with the 

 ancient iron- smelting and other industries of Cannock Chase, 

 recorded details of a prehistoric flint-factory, and described the 

 basement-rocks of the Bunter of the same district. 



He died suddenly in his office at Rugeley on January 15th, 1918, 

 in the 66th year of his age, and was buried at Brereton. 



[T. C. C] 



William Lower Carter, a frequent participant in our meetings 

 of late years, and well known among geologists generally from his 

 long service as Secretary & Recorder to the Geological Section of 

 the British Association, and previously as Hon. Secretary of the 

 Yorkshire Geological Society, was elected a Fellow in 1884. He 

 was born on August 9th, 1855, and received his early education at 

 Derby School, where his bent for Natural Science declared itself. 

 He began independent life as a bank clerk, but on the impulse of a 

 call to the Congregational ministry, he entered upon a course of 



