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forefathers. With pious care he used to visit aud keep in due repair 

 the interesting sepulchral monument of his family in the old church- 

 yard of the Greyfriars at Edinburgh. Wo can picture the satisfac- 

 tion with which he would read the inscription, still clean and sharp, 

 that records the virtues of his ancestor, John Milne, who died in 



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" Rare man he was, who could unite in one, 



Highest and lowest occupation ; 



To sit with statesmen, councillor to kings, 



To work, with tradesmen, in mechanick things. 



Reader, John Milne, who maketh the fourth John 



And, by descent, from father unto son. 



Sixth master mason to a royal race 



Of seven succeasire Kings, sleeps in this place." 



Mylne was naturally and justly proud of this lineage ; but under 

 his exterior of stiffness and reserve there lay hidden a vein of tender 

 sentiment, and he would now and then express his deep regret that 

 no son of his would carry on the work and traditions of his family. 

 He died July 2nd, 1890. 



The name of Geoege Wareing Ormerod has long been a house- 

 hold word among us. It is therefore with more than common regret 

 that we have to record his death on the 6th of January of the pre- 

 sent year at the advanced age of eighty years. After practising law for 

 some years in Manchester, he went to reside at Chagford, in South 

 Devon hut for the last twenty years made his home at Teignmouth. 

 He has communicated various papers to our Journal on such sub- 

 jects as the Cheshire Salt-field, the rock-basins in the Dartmoor 

 granite, and papers on the geology of the South-west of England, 

 besides numerous contributions to the " Transactions " of the Devon- 

 shire Association. His memoir on the Salt-district was an important 

 addition to the geological literature of this country. 



But it is by his Classified Index to our publications that his name 

 has been most widely known. What geologist engaged in the study 

 of the voluminous literature of his science has not again and again 

 had cause to congratulate the Society and himself that a man of 

 leisure, possessing the requisite wide acquaintance with geology as 

 well as the power of methodical and convenient arrangement, should 

 have been found willing to devote his time to the task of construct- 

 ino- an orderly and easily consulted guide to the contents of our 

 '^ Transactions," " Proceedings," aud " Quarterly Journal " ? Two 

 editions of the work have appeared aud three supplements, of which 

 the third, published only last year, may be regarded as its author's 

 latest gift to the Society. 



