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Society in 1877, of which Society he had been elected a Fellow in 

 the year 1861. His death took place in November 1907. 



Aethtjr Bbayor Wynne was born in October 1835. In his early 

 years he was for a time Assistant in the General Valuation Office 

 of Ireland under Sir Richard Griffith, but in the spring of 1855 

 he received from the Director of the Geological Survey, Sir Henry De 

 la Beche, a nomination as Assistant Geologist on the Irish Geological 

 Survey. In conjunction with Jukes, Du Noyer, and Kinahan he 

 mapped large tracts of Counties Tipperary, Waterford, and Cork. 

 In 1862, two years after he had been elected into this Society, he 

 was appointed to the Indian Geological Survey, then in charge of 

 Dr. Thomas Oldham, and he remained in that service for twenty- 

 one years. In his Indian career he was first employed in the 

 Bombay Presidency, and published two memoirs on the geology of 

 Bombay Island. He was next transferred to Kutch, on the geology 

 of which he published a memoir. Thereafter he moved into the 

 Punjab, and for the rest of his service was engaged in the eluci- 

 dation of the geology of the Salt Eange. His three memoirs, 

 supplemented by Prof. Waagen's descriptions of the fossils collected 

 during the progress of the Survey, remain the standard work on 

 the geology of that interesting and complicated ground. At 

 various times during his connection with the Indian Survey he 

 was obliged, on account of bad health, to take prolonged periods 

 of furlough. At last, in April 1883, he found it necessary to 

 resign his appointment. Having settled in Ireland, he was once 

 more appointed on the staff of the Irish Geological Survey, as 

 resident officer in Dublin, charged with the general conduct of the 

 office and official correspondence. In consequence of a reorgani- 

 zation of this Survey in 1890, he was retired from the service. 

 After that time he resided chiefly in Switzerland. In 1889 he 

 became President of the Poyal Geological Society of Ireland, and 

 filled this position during the last session of the existence of that 

 Society. He died in December 1906. Mr. Wynne was a talented 

 artist. He contributed to the Survey Memoirs excellent sketches 

 illustrative of the geology and scenery of various parts of Ireland. 

 He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and elsewhere his 

 charming water-colour sketches of scenery, which were always 

 popular.^ 



^ For this obituary, notes have been supplied by Mr. H. B. Woodward and 

 Mr. T. H. D. La Touche. 



