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his ripe experience and wise counsels. We mourn his death with 

 sincere sorrow, and though " the sweet benefit of time " will doubt- 

 less soften our regret, we shall never cease to remember with affec- 

 tionate regard the distinguished colleague and the generous-hearted 

 friend whom we have lost in Warington Smyth. 



Samuel A. Adamson was a well-known and widely-esteemed geo- 

 logist of the Midlands, who, receiving his early training under Pro- 

 fessor Green at Leeds, did good service to the cause of science by 

 spreading an interest in the progress of geology. He took an active 

 part in the affairs of the local scientific societies and became a Pellow 

 of this Society in 1877. He specially devoted his attention to the 

 Carboniferous rocks and the Drift phenomena of his own neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Samuel H. Beckles will be remembered in the history of Geology 

 chiefly for the important work which he did in unearthing the oldest 

 known Mammalian remains from the rocks of the Purbeck group. 

 In 1856, following up a previous discovery by Mr. Brodie, he 

 succeeded in bringing to light twelve or more species of unques- 

 tionably warm-blooded quadrupeds, together with remains of many 

 reptiles, several insects, and some freshwater shells. Students of 

 Lyell's " Elements of Geology" will remember how prominent a 

 place these discoveries occupied in the geological literature of the 

 day. Mr. Beckles had previously given some attention to the Wealden 

 strata, and had published a few papers regarding them and the bird- 

 like footprints found in them. He joined this Society in 1854, and 

 his energy and skill in the exploration of the Purbeck mammalian 

 deposit were recognized by his election into the Eoyal Society in 

 1859. He died in August of last year. 



Hexey Bowman Brady was born at Gateshead in 1835. The son 

 of a medical practitioner, he M^as led to interest himself in the 

 relations between medicine and chemistry, and while still a lad 

 started in business as a pharmaceutical chemist in Newcastle. His 

 thoroughly scientific habit of mind showed itself from the first in 

 his career. He devoted himself with ardour to the scientific deve- 

 lopment of the practical branch of chemistry which he had adopted, 

 served for many years on the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, 

 and contributed much by his efforts and infiuence to further its 

 objects. But he had strong natural-history tastes also, which early 



