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cotton-trade in which he had been engaged in Manchester he 

 retired some thirty years ago, and he devoted himself thereafter to 

 the pursuit of science. For over forty years he took a keen interest 

 in all the scientific societies centred in that city. He became a 

 Fellow of our Society in 1876. Joining the Manchester Geological 

 Society in 1880, he held the office of its Honorary Secretary for 

 about ten years, and in 1896-97 was elected its President. In 

 recognition of his services he was in 1904 made an Honorary 

 Member. He contributed many papers to that Society's Trans- 

 actions, amongst which may be mentioned one on the Glacial 

 Geology of Llandudno (1883). He likewise took an active part in 

 the proceedings of the Manchester Field-Naturalists' & Archaeo- 

 logical Society and the Literary & Philosophical Society. He 

 identified himself with every fresh development of geological 

 science, more particularly taking interest in the application of the 

 microscope to geology and biology. He became a Member of the 

 British Association in 1867, and was a regular attendant at its 

 meetings. As a member of the Association Francaise pour I'Avance- 

 ment des Sciences, his fluency in the French language made him an 

 effective representative of his own country. In the pursuit of his 

 scientific enquiries he travelled much on the Continent, more 

 particularly in Italy, where he was generally taken for a French- 

 man. He lived out his life to the end, dying on June 10th, 1907, 

 in the 76th year of his age. He has left the whole of his property 

 to the University of Manchester, for the advancement of scientific 

 knowledge in his own city.^ 



Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, Baron Allendale, of Allendale 

 and Hexham, the son of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, was born on 

 April lltb, 1829, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. He succeeded to extensive lead-mines in North- 

 umberland and Durham on the death of his father in 1848. He 

 became a Fellow of our Society in 1851. He was M.P. for South 

 Northumberland from 1852 to 1885, and for the Tyneside division 

 of the county from 1886 to 1892. He was raised to the peerage 

 in 1906. His famous lead-mines known as the ' W. B. Lead-mines,' 

 from the initials of William Blackett, a former owner, yielded metal 

 of high quality, but were considered in 1845 to be nearly exhausted. 

 At that date he appointed as chief agent Thomas Sopwith, who, in 



^ This notice has been supplied by Mr. B. Hobson. 



