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remote parts of the country towards physiographic questions. His 

 health was never very strong, but his friends had not suspected 

 that his life would be cut short at the age of 60 years. He left a 

 bequest to University College, Aberystwyth, to enable its Professors, 

 after a certain period of service, to take a holiday of six months or 

 a year on full salary. The object is 



' to enable the Professor to refresh his mind by travel or research or visits to 

 -other Universities, and so gain fresh stimulus and equipment for his work.' 



The personality of the Eev. Edwaed MArLE Cole was not 

 very well known at the Geological Society, although he was fre- 

 quently to be met with at the meetings of the British Association. 

 It was, however, on the Yorkshire AYolds, near his vicarage at 

 "Wetwang, that he was best known and appreciated, whether 

 conducting excursions to study the geology or archaeology of the 

 district, lecturing or reading papers to the local Societies, or engaged 

 in opening barrows or excavating for antiquarian relics. Born in 

 1833, he passed from Bossall to Oxford, and returned to his old 

 school as a master in 1857. Removing to Wetwang in 1865, he 

 had the opportunity of following up his interest in Geology. He 

 published a uumber of papers on geological and archaeological 

 subjects in the ' Xaturalist,' the ' Antiquary,' ' Old Yorkshire,' and 

 the ' Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 

 Society.' He died in ^March 1911, at the age of 78, not long 

 surviving his friend, J. E. Mortimer, with parts of whose archaeo- 

 logical work in the Wolds he was closely associated. 



Geoege EL:\iSLEr Coke, who died on May 14th, 1911, was a well- 

 known member of the Institution of Mining Engineers, and, both as 

 a member of its Council and as a contributor to its Transactions, he 

 took an active part in the work of the Institution. He was President 

 of the Midland Counties Institution of Engineers in 1901-02, and 

 up to the time of his death was a member of its Einance and 

 Publication Committee. His papers relate chiefly to Coal-mining, 

 and into these, wherever it is necessary, there is introduced more 

 than the usual amount of sound geological inference. He was a 

 member of the Geologists' Association, and a leader of some of the 

 excursions. In Geology, Mr. Coke's name will be chiefly associated 

 Avith the explorations made in proving the eastern extension of 

 the Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire Coalfield. On this subject his 

 opinion Avas always highly valued, and in 1895-96 he contributed 



