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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  [May 
  1 
  897, 
  

  

  having 
  been 
  engaged 
  for 
  thirty 
  years 
  as 
  umpire, 
  arbitrator, 
  or 
  

   otherwise 
  in 
  disputes 
  between 
  railway- 
  and 
  canal-companies 
  and 
  

   colliery-owners, 
  and 
  his 
  ability 
  and 
  sound 
  judgment 
  in 
  highly 
  

   technical 
  cases 
  were 
  widely 
  recognized. 
  He 
  was 
  specially 
  retained 
  

   by 
  the 
  Midland 
  Railway 
  Company 
  to 
  advise 
  on 
  questions 
  relating 
  

   to 
  its 
  large 
  mineral 
  traffic. 
  He 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  

   in 
  1864, 
  and 
  died 
  on 
  June 
  27th, 
  1896. 
  

  

  Richard 
  Nicholas 
  Worth 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  in 
  

   1875. 
  He 
  wrote 
  much 
  on 
  the 
  geology 
  of 
  Devonshire, 
  particularly 
  

   the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Plymouth, 
  and 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  active 
  

   and 
  respected 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Devonshire 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  

   Advancement 
  of 
  Science, 
  Literature, 
  and 
  Art, 
  and 
  was 
  always 
  most 
  

   ready 
  to 
  render 
  assistance 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  desired 
  to 
  study 
  the 
  

   districts 
  with 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  familiar. 
  His 
  first 
  paper 
  appears 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  vol. 
  v. 
  Trans. 
  Devon. 
  Assoc. 
  1872, 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Scientific 
  Papers 
  fourteen 
  

   appear 
  under 
  his 
  name 
  up 
  to 
  1883. 
  The 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  of 
  

   the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  for 
  1876 
  contains 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  him 
  ' 
  On 
  

   certain 
  Alluvial 
  Deposits 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  Plymouth 
  Limestone.' 
  

   Another 
  in 
  1886 
  ' 
  On 
  the 
  Evidence 
  of 
  a 
  Submarine 
  Triassic 
  Outlier 
  

   in 
  the 
  English 
  Channel 
  off 
  the 
  Lizard,' 
  and 
  in 
  1889 
  ' 
  On 
  the 
  Elvans 
  

   and 
  Volcanic 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Dartmoor.' 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  voluminous 
  writer 
  

   on 
  archaeological 
  subjects 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  county 
  of 
  Devon, 
  and 
  

   wrote 
  several 
  guide-books 
  which 
  have 
  had 
  a 
  large 
  circulation. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  "Worth 
  died 
  on 
  July 
  3rd, 
  1896. 
  

  

  Elias 
  Dorning, 
  M.Inst.C.E., 
  born 
  on 
  January 
  25th, 
  1819, 
  

   was 
  articled 
  to 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Benson, 
  of 
  Bury, 
  in 
  1836. 
  

   After 
  serving 
  a 
  pupilage 
  of 
  five 
  years, 
  he 
  was 
  engaged 
  from 
  1841 
  to 
  

   1843 
  as 
  resident 
  engineer 
  on 
  the 
  Bury 
  Waterworks. 
  Mr. 
  Doming 
  

   then 
  commenced 
  to 
  practise 
  on 
  his 
  own 
  account 
  in 
  Manchester 
  

   as 
  a 
  civil 
  and 
  mining 
  engineer, 
  surveyor, 
  and 
  land 
  agent. 
  As 
  a 
  

   consulting 
  engineer 
  Mr. 
  Doming 
  acted 
  for 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Derby, 
  the 
  

   Earl 
  of 
  Sefton, 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Wilton, 
  and 
  many 
  other 
  landowners 
  in 
  

   the 
  North. 
  He 
  was 
  standing 
  arbitrator 
  for 
  the 
  Corporation 
  of 
  

   Manchester. 
  He 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1867, 
  

   and 
  died 
  on 
  July 
  18th, 
  1896. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Baron 
  Ferdinand 
  von 
  Muller, 
  who 
  was 
  elected 
  

   a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  in 
  1882, 
  Australia 
  has 
  lost 
  one 
  of 
  her 
  

  

  