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collections of brachiopoda, wherein all the specimens had been 

 laboriously cleaned, measured, and sorted into their proper specific 

 relations, have most generously been presented by his executors to 

 the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Mr. Walker 

 became a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 1889, but having ample 

 means of his own he would not accept the emoluments attached 

 to the Fellowship. He married in 1882 Miss Alice Cracknell, of 

 Knowle House, Ealing. He was an admirable example of the 

 cultured, leisured, non-professional man of science, so much more 

 frequently met with in this country than anywhere else, who has 

 time and means to devote to the subject which he loves, with no 

 ambition to shine before the world, but ever ready to place himself 

 at the service of those who share his tastes and his enthusiasm. 

 He died after a short illness on May 23rd, 1907.^ 



EoBERT Law, of Fenny Eoyd Hall, Hipperholme, near Halifax, 

 who became a Fellow of this Society in 1886, was an enthusiastic 

 worker on the geology and archaeology of the borders of Yorkshire 

 and Lancashire. Born at Walsden, north of Rochdale, on June 21st, 

 1840, he entered business at an early age in a large cotton-mill in 

 Lancashire, and was enabled to retire about 18 years ago. When 

 he was a lad, the rocks and fossils of the country around his home 

 attracted his attention, and he pursued the study with such avidity 

 that he was able in due course to act as geological teacher under 

 the Science & Art Department, in many technical schools in the 

 district. By his lectures and excursions he stirred up much local 

 interest. A frequent attendant at meetings of the British Associ- 

 ation, he occasionally communicated to that body, as well as to the 

 Geological Societies of Manchester and Yorkshire, the results of his 

 researches. Among his papers may be mentioned those written 

 conjointly with James Horsfall, on the discovery of fossils in a 

 basement Carboniferous conglomerate at Moughton Fell, near 

 Settle; and on the occurrence of tiny flint -implements near 

 Eochdale and Todmorden. Mr. Law died on December 29th, 1907. 



Edwaed Power, who was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1892, 

 was much interested in the progress of geology, and may be looked 

 upon as a patron of the science. He purchased the geological 

 collection of the late W. C. Lucy, of Gloucester, and presented it to 

 the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



1 For the details of this notice I am indebted to Mr. G. W. Lamplugh ; the 

 second pai-agraph has been furnished by Prof. W. W. Watts. 



