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lent for the purpose of exploring the mineral resources of the 

 Nizam's territories and the tin-bearing deposits of Burma. In the 

 course of his scientific explorations he had always been a keen, 

 sportsman, and is said to have shot more than a hundred tigers 

 during his Indian career. But at the beginning of 1893 he met 

 with a shooting accident, receiving a charge of shot in the face, by 

 which he lost the sight of both eyes. He was consequently 

 obliged to retire from the public service in October 1894, to the 

 great regret of his colleagues. He had contributed in his time 

 twenty-six papers to the Eecords and nine Memoirs to the publi- 

 cations of the Indian Survey. He became a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1865.^ 



The Eev. Eichaeb Baeoi^, T.L.S., born at Kendal in 1847, spent 

 most of his life in the service of the London Missionary Society. 

 From ] 872 onward till last year he was engaged at Antananarivo in 

 Madagascar. In the intervals of his missionary labours he found 

 time for the indulgence of his tastes as an enthusiastic naturalist, 

 especially in the departments of botany and geology. The results 

 of his geological observations were communicated to this Society in 

 1889 in a paper entitled ' xs'otes on the Geology of Madagascar,' 

 accompanied by a geological map of the northern part of the island. 

 The fossils he had collected, described and figured by Mr. E. BuUen 

 Newton, with aid from Prof. T. E. Jones and others, consisted of 

 Eocene, Cretaceous, and Jurassic invertebrata, ' forming nearly the 

 first series of Malagasy fossils that have ever reached this country.' 

 Dr. F. H. Hatch discussed the older crystalline and volcanic rocks. 

 A further communication from Mr. Baron was brought before us 

 in November 1894, together with an additional series of fossils, 

 which were again described by Mr. E. B. Newton, who took the 

 opportunity to append a list of all the recognized fossils from 

 Madagascar. Mr. Baron was elected into this Society in 1889 ; and 

 three years later, in acknowledgment of his geological work, which 

 had been carried on amid many discouragements, the Council 

 awarded to him the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund. 

 He died at Morecambe, while on a visit to this country, on 

 December 12th, 1907. 



Dr. Beek^aed J. Haeeington, who died on November 29th, 1907> 

 was born in Canada on August 5th, 1848, and was educated at 



^ From notes supplied by Mr, T. H. D. La Touche. 



