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area in West Sutherland and also for the Loch Maree district. In 

 the spring, when the mountains were not 3^et clear of snow, and in 

 the autumn, when the deer-forests were closed, he was engaged in 

 the Cowal peninsula of Argyllshire. Later he surveyed much 

 difficult ground in the Glenelg district, the south-eastern part of 

 Skye, and Easter Ross. 



In 1902 Clough was made a District Geologist, and soon after- 

 wards took over the charge of the Survey work in Northern 

 Argyllshire and the Isle of Mull, while he was occupied during 

 the spring and autumn with the revision of the Scottish coal-fields. 

 It was in the course of this latter work that he met his death, 

 being run over in a railway-cutting, and sustaining injuries to 

 which he succumbed three days later, on August 27th, 1916. 



Clough was essentially a geological mapper, and, whether for 

 skill in unravelling complicated structures, or for minute and 

 accurate detail, his maps have probably never been equalled. Of 

 the numerous official miemoirs of which he was author or joint- 

 author the most important are his parts of ' The Greology of 

 Cowal,' published in 1897, and ' The Geological Structure of the 

 North- West Highlands,' issued ten years later. His writings are 

 characterized by scrupulous accuracy concerning the facts of 

 observation, combined Avith a conscientious care in the drawing of 

 conclusions. The reader soon acquires the conviction that any 

 statement advanced bj^ Clough may be accepted without hesitation. 



While deeply absorbed in his geological work, he took also a 

 keen interest in social questions. His personal tastes and habits 

 were of the simplest. His gentle nature, his transparent sincerity, 

 his modesty concerning his own work, and his generous apprecia- 

 tion of that of others, gave him a warm place in the hearts of all 

 who knew him. In 1906 he received recognition from this Society 

 in the form of the Murchison Medal ; from 1908 to 1910 he Avas 

 President of the Geological Society of Edinburgh ; and onh^ a 

 month before his death the Universit}" of St. Andrews conferred 

 upon him the degree of LL.D. He leaves a widow with one son 

 and two daughters. 



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By the death of Clemext Keid we have lost an assiduous 

 worker who, during a Fellowship of forty 3'ears, has done much to 

 forward the interests of the Societ}", both by his scientific contri- 

 butions and by his services on the Council. The value and promise 

 of his work were recosrnized by the award to him of the Mm-chison 



