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Feais'k Fowlee, who died on January 16th, 1917, aged 53, was 

 a well-known Grovernment official in Bntish Gruiana. There he 

 was born and educated, and his life was spent in the Ci\TLl Sei'vice 

 of the Colony. At the time of his death he had fiUed for fourteen 

 years the office of Commissioner of Lands and Mines. He was 

 elected into this Society in 1910. 



Chaeles Dawsok, though born in Lancashire, passed most of 

 his life in Sussex. There, while following the profession of solicitor, 

 he found time to gratify his interest in geology and archaeology. 

 He devoted much attention to the reptilian remains in the Wealden 

 formation, and made a valuable collection, which is now deposited 

 in the British Museum (Xatm-al History). Later he was attracted 

 to the study of prehistoric man, and his name became wddely 

 known in connexion mth his discovery of the Piltdown skull. 

 Of this, with Dr. Smith Woodward as coadjutor, he communi- 

 cated an account to oui' Society in Deceiiiber, 1912. He died at 

 Lewes, after a protracted illness, on August 10th. 1916. He had 

 been a Fellow of our Society since 1885. 



Thomas de Couecy Meade, who died on February 13th, 1916, 

 had held since 1894 the post of City Surveyor at Manchester. 

 There his most important work was done in connexion with the 

 ne^v drainage scheme of the city, on which he read a paper to the 

 Engineering Section of the British Association in 1915. He was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society in 1891, and was also a member of 

 the Institutions both of Civil and of Mechanical Engineers. 



Lastly, we have to lament the premature death of five of our 

 younger Fellows, who have fallen while fighting for their countiy 

 and for the cause of civilization. Eeginald Cooksey Bueton, 

 Assistant-Superintendent on the Geological Sm'vey of India, 

 attached to the 104th Rifles in Mesopotamia, was wounded in 

 action on April 8th, 1916, and died on the following day, aged 26. 

 During three years of service in India he had done good Avork, 

 especially in connexion with the gneisses of the Centi-al Provinces 

 and the origin of the Seoni bauxites ; and the Director of the 

 Survey describes him as ' one of the most promising, as well as one 

 of the most popular, of its younger members.' Richaed Roy 

 Lewee, Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifles, eldest son of 

 Mr. H. W. Lewer, of Priors, Loughton (Essex), was wounded on 



