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and rests in the little cemetery of Lanclrecies, the home of his 

 boy hood. 1 



John Wesley Jxjdd was born at Portsmouth on February 18th, 

 1840. His father was of a Kentish family long settled in the 

 Isle of Wight, and his mother was of Scottish descent. His 

 devotion to natural science declared itself at an early age ; but, 

 although he had obtained first-class certificates in Geology and 

 Mineralogy from the Department of Science & Art, he found at 

 first no opening in this direction. He accordingly became in 1859 

 a master in a school at Horncastle, in Lincolnshire. There he 

 remained for three years, pursuing at the same time his studies in 

 chemistry and devoting his holidays to geological excursions in the 

 neighbourhood. In 1863, making another attempt to realize his 

 aspirations towards a scientific career, he entered the E-oyal School 

 of Mines, and was rewarded by winning one of the newly instituted 

 Royal Exhibitions. His design was to devote himself for a time 

 to research work, but in this he was again disappointed, and we 

 next find him engaged as an analytical chemist in iron and steel- 

 works at Sheffield. It was there that he made the acquaintance 

 of Sorby, and was introduced by him to the new method of studying 

 rocks in thin slices. 



Judd's residence at Sheffield terminated abruptly by reason of a 

 railway-accident, from the consequences of which he suffered for 

 a long time. Forbidden to undertake any regular employment, 

 he turned again to his geological work in Lincolnshire. By a 

 strati graphical and palseontological study of the strata at the base 

 of the Chalk Wolds he was able to correlate them with the Neo- 

 comian of the Continent ; and, extending his investigation to the 

 Yorkshire coast, he there identified the same zones under a different 

 facies. These researches formed the subject of his first two com- 

 munications to our Society. He next carried out a revision of 

 the Lower Oolites of Lincolnshire, and extended it into Yorkshire 

 in one direction and into the Midland counties in the other. This 

 he developed further in the course of his work on the G-eological 

 Survey, which he joined, at the instance of Ramsay, in 1867, and 

 the results were embodied in the memoir on the Geology of Rutland 

 which appeared, after some delay, in 1875. 



^ For many of the facts here recorded I am indebted to an interesting and 

 sympathetic notice by Prof. L. Cayeux, in the ' Revue generale des Sciences,' 

 July 15th, 1916. 



