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The Eev. John Moee Goedox, M.A., was born on April 13th, 

 ISJrQ. He entered as a theological student at Balliol College, 

 Oxford, and graduated in 1873, winning the Ellerton Essay Prize 

 in that jea.v, and the Denj'er Johnson Scholarship in 1S75, in 

 which Year he was ordained. He Avas for 31 years vicar of 

 St. John the Evangelist, Eedhill. Although he has published 

 none of his work, he was a very keen student of petrology and 

 mineralogy, and formed a very fine collection of minerals (the 

 sj^ecimens from Swiss localities being particularly fine). His gifts 

 of minerals have much enriched the collections, both at the 

 Xatural Historj^ Museum and in the Geological Department of 

 the Universitv of Aberdeen, in which Universitv his o-randfather 

 was Professor of Ecclesiastical History. His interest in science 

 was very wide. He was a Fellow of the Plwsical Society and^f 

 the Royal Microscopical Society, a Member of the Mineralogical 

 Society and of the Alpine Club. He Y'as elected a Fellow of our 

 own Society in 1888, and died at his London house on January 

 ISth, 1922^ [W. C. S.] 



Feedeeic Thomas Maid well was born at Gunnerside, in 

 Swaledale, in 1872. He qualified as an instructor in handicraft, 

 and, after acting as such in the Midlands, received in 1908 an 

 appointment under the Education authority of Runcorn, where he 

 rendered useful service to the town and was a member of the Free 

 Librar}^ Committee. Devoting the greater part of his life to 

 geology, he was indefatigable in observing and recording par- 

 ticulars of sections, and gave special attention to the stud}' of 

 fossil footprints in the Trias. He was elected a Fellow of this 

 Society in 1919. 



Chaeles Feedinand Zabel was a vouno- man of orreat 

 promise, who, after a brilliant course of studentship, y as employed 

 on various mining investigations. At the outbreak of the late war 

 he Y'as engaged on a survey of manganese-deposits in the Rhine 

 Yalle}^ and, with many others, was interned at Ruhleben, Y^here he 

 distins^uished himself bv his exertions for the welfare of his fellow- 

 prisoners, and ably maintained the honoui- of the country" to Y'hich 

 he owed allegiance. Always keen in his interest for geology and 

 our Societ}', his books have been presented to our Library and have 

 given us some useful additions. He was elected a FelloY^ in 1919, 

 and died at Tete, in East Africa, on July loth of last year. 



