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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  [May 
  1897,. 
  

  

  University 
  of 
  London 
  and 
  Assistant 
  Examiner 
  to 
  the 
  Science 
  and 
  

   Art 
  Department 
  ; 
  he 
  was, 
  moreover, 
  Examiner 
  in 
  Geology 
  to 
  the 
  

   University 
  of 
  Durham, 
  and 
  latterly 
  for 
  the 
  Home 
  and 
  Indian 
  Civil 
  

   Service. 
  He 
  had 
  greatly 
  endeared 
  himself 
  to 
  his 
  colleagues, 
  and 
  

   his 
  death 
  at 
  a 
  comparatively 
  early 
  age 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  great 
  loss 
  to 
  

   geological 
  science. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Monsieur 
  Atjguste 
  Daubree, 
  which 
  took 
  place 
  on 
  

   May 
  29th, 
  1896, 
  in 
  Paris, 
  our 
  Society 
  has 
  lost 
  one 
  of 
  its 
  most 
  

   distinguished 
  Foreign 
  Members. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Metz 
  (Lorraine) 
  

   on 
  June 
  25th, 
  1814. 
  After 
  passing 
  the 
  Ecole 
  Polytechnique 
  he 
  was 
  

   admitted 
  into 
  the 
  Corps 
  des 
  Mines 
  in 
  1834, 
  and 
  in 
  1838 
  was 
  

   appointed 
  Ingenieur 
  des 
  Mines 
  in 
  the 
  Bas-Rhin, 
  and 
  Professor 
  of 
  

   Geology 
  and 
  Mineralogy 
  at 
  the 
  Faculty 
  of 
  Sciences 
  of 
  Strasburg, 
  of 
  

   which 
  he 
  became 
  Dean 
  in 
  1852. 
  In 
  1861 
  he 
  was 
  (almost 
  unani- 
  

   mously) 
  elected 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  in 
  succession 
  

   to 
  Prof. 
  Cordier, 
  whom 
  he 
  also 
  succeeded 
  as 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  

   at 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Museum, 
  Paris 
  ; 
  he 
  was 
  nominated 
  In- 
  

   specteur-General 
  des 
  Mines 
  in 
  1867, 
  and 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  School 
  of 
  

   Mines 
  in 
  1872. 
  Prof. 
  Daubree 
  wrote 
  more 
  than 
  300 
  memoirs, 
  

   chiefly 
  on 
  geological 
  and 
  mineralogical 
  subjects, 
  and 
  on 
  investiga- 
  

   tions 
  allied 
  thereto, 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  permeability 
  of 
  rocks 
  by 
  water 
  and 
  

   the 
  effects 
  of 
  such 
  infiltration 
  in 
  producing 
  volcanic 
  phenomena, 
  

   the 
  relation 
  between 
  thermal 
  waters 
  and 
  the 
  rocks 
  whence 
  they 
  

   flow, 
  the 
  composition 
  of 
  meteoric 
  masses 
  anr 
  1 
  their 
  classification 
  

   in 
  accordance 
  therewith. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  distinguished 
  for 
  the 
  

   long-continued 
  and 
  sometimes 
  dangerous 
  experiments 
  which 
  he 
  

   conducted 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  ascertain 
  to 
  what 
  extent 
  it 
  was 
  possible 
  artifici- 
  

   ally 
  to 
  imitate 
  the 
  natural 
  production 
  of 
  rocks. 
  Prof. 
  Daubree 
  had 
  

   been 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Agricultural 
  Society 
  of 
  France, 
  

   Honorary 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  Alpine 
  Club, 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  of 
  the 
  Geological, 
  the 
  Geographical, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Mineralogical 
  Societies 
  of 
  Paris, 
  Honorary 
  Ph.D. 
  of 
  Bologna 
  and 
  

   of 
  Halle, 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  of 
  London, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Mineralogical 
  Society, 
  of 
  the 
  Reale 
  Accademia 
  dei 
  Lincei, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academies 
  of 
  Bologna, 
  Boston, 
  Brussels, 
  Copenhagen, 
  Gottingen, 
  

   Munich, 
  Philadelphia, 
  St. 
  Petersburg, 
  and 
  Turin, 
  of 
  the 
  Scientific 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Batavia, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Institute 
  of 
  Mining. 
  

   Engineers. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  Grand 
  Officer 
  of 
  the 
  Legion 
  of 
  Honour, 
  

   Grand 
  Cross, 
  Grand 
  Officer 
  and 
  Commander 
  of 
  numerous 
  foreign 
  

   Orders. 
  Prof. 
  Daubree 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  of 
  this 
  

  

  