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the miners. He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1868, 

 served on the Council in 1902-1903, and died on December 13th, 

 1920. 



George Hogbex, born at Islington in 1853, graduated at 

 Cambridge in 1877, and entered the teaching profession. In 1881 

 he went to Xew Zealand as luathematical and science-master of 

 the Christchurch Boys' High School, and, after holding some other 

 posts, was made Inspector- Greneral of Schools under the New 

 Zealand Education Department, up to his retirement in 1915. 

 His natural bent was mathematical and physical, and he found 

 time to prepare and publish a number of papers dealing with these 

 subjects, despite his activity in educational matters. It Avas from 

 this side that he touched our science, by his contributions to the 

 study of Xew Zealand earthquakes, and by his exertions in rousing-^ 

 an interest in Seismology, both the older and the new, in Austral- 

 asia. He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1911. and died on 

 April 26th, 1920. 



George Sweet was born at Salisbury, but spent most of his life- 

 in Australia, where he was a manufacturer of pottery. He was 

 always a keen geologist, and served as second in command to Sir 

 T. W. Edgeworth David in his expedition to Funafuti. He 

 made extensive collections of fossils from the Carboniferous and 

 Cretaceous rocks of Queensland, and was joint author with 

 C. C. Brittlebank of a description of the glacial deposits of the 

 Bacchus Marsh District. He was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1890. 



In the preparation of the foregoing notices of deceased Fellows 

 I am indebted to Sir William Boyd Dawkins, Dr. Walcot Gibson, 

 Mr. F. W. Harmer, Dr. John Home, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, 

 Prof. J. E. Marr, Prof. A. C. Seward, Prof. W. J. Sollas, Sir 

 J. J. H. Teall, Prof. W. AV. Watts, and many others, too 

 numerous to mention in detail, for assistance and information 

 readily rendered. To all these I express my gratitude and thanks 

 for the help accorded. 



