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in Geolog}^ and accmiiiikted a collection which was presented to 

 the Wigan Technical College. He became President of the 

 Manchester Geoloo-ical & Minins^ Society in 1904, and was elected 

 Fellow of our own Society in 1907. 



Heney Nathaniel ])AyTES was for fifty years resident at 

 Weston-super-Mare, where he w^orked as a tutor and teacher in 

 local schools, and did much to arouse local interest, by lectures and 

 personal adyocacy, in the geology and prehistoric ai'chseology of 

 the district. To this local interest and to his agency we owe the 

 preservation of the skeleton of a Palseolithic woman, found in 

 Gough's Cavern, of Avhich a description was published in our 

 Quarterly Journal. He was a keen naturalist and collector in 

 Geology and Archaeology, his collection being now in the possession 

 of the University of Bristol. Elected a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1889, he died on February 6th, 1920. 



Feaxcis Jame.s Beistjs^ett was born in 18-15, and educated 

 at University College School, London. Son of a solicitor, and 

 grandson of the Rev. James Bennett, a noted Syriac and Hebrew 

 scholar, he joined the Geological Survey in 1868, and retired in 

 1899. During this period his service was almost exclusively con- 

 fined to the Home and Eastern Counties. In his later years he 

 devoted some attention to Prehistoric Man, and his name will be 

 associated with that of Mr. Benjamin Harrison in attempts to 

 solve the problem of the Eoliths of the Kent Plateau. He also 

 published papers on the application of geological knowledge to 

 Toad-making and sanitation, and, in 1907, brought out an inter- 

 esting account of the Ightham neighbourhood, in which he dealt 

 with the geology, river-development, and archaeology. He was 

 ■elected a Fellow of this Society in 1875, and died on June 23rd, 

 1920. 



Aethue Sopwith, son of Thomas Sopwith, a geologist of 

 repute and formerly Fellow of the Society, was born in 1848, took 

 up the profession of mining engineer, and from 1864 to 1873 worked 

 :successively in Spain, in Central India, in Bohemia, and in Brazil. 

 In 1873 he was appointed manager of the Cannock Chase Collieries, 

 a post which he vacated in 1919 to become consulting director. 

 As colliery manager he was a pioneer in the introduction of electric 

 lighting in coal-mines, and devoted a large share of his time to 

 improvements in the safety of mining and the social welfare of 



