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but little had been published since the famous paper by Buckland 

 & Conybeare which appeared in our Transactions (1824). Mr. 

 Greenwell's observations were printed in the Transactions of the 

 I^orth of England Institute of Mining Engineers, in those of 

 the South Wales Institute of Engineers, and of the Manchester 

 Geological Society. The most important of his works on the dis- 

 trict was that published in conjunction with his friend, Mr. Jame& 

 McMurtrie, P.G.S., on ' The Radstock Portion of the Somersetshire 

 Coalfield' (8vo, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1864). Leaving Radstock 

 in 1863, Mr. Greenwell was occupied for some years in the 

 management of collieries in Cheshire, until 1879, when he devoted 

 himself entirely to consulting practice. 



He died in November 1900, in his 80th year. [H. B. W.] 



Commander the Hon. William Geimston was the second son 

 of James Walter, second Earl of Verulam. He was born on 

 January 7th, 1855, and entered the Royal Navy in 1868, from 

 which he retired in 1885 through ill-health, brought on by a gallant 

 action which resulted in the rescue of a seaman who had fallen 

 overboard. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1897, and 

 died on May 10th, 1900. 



Charles John Adrian Meyer was a Fellow of old standingy 

 having Tjeen elected into the Society in 1869, though of recent years 

 we have had him rarely among us. He was born on May 23rd, 

 1832. His inherent love of natural history was fostered by the 

 residence of his family in the country, near Godalming, where his^ 

 interest was at first especially attracted to bird-life. He there com- 

 menced to collect fossils from the Lower Greensand of the district,, 

 and in so doing laid the foundations of that intimate knowledge of 

 the Lower Cretaceous Rocks of the South of England which enabled 

 him afterwards to add to our literature a valuable series of papers 

 which will ever remain as a permanent memorial of his labours. 

 As in the case of many another worker who is gratefully remembered 

 in our science, it was only the leisure spared from other duties that 

 he could devote to his geological investigations, for in July 1857 he 

 entered upon a post in the Civil Service, in the Accountant-Generars 

 Ofiice, in a division which was subsequently transferred to the 

 Chancery Courts under the title of the Supreme Court Pay Office. 

 During his holidays he repeatedly visited such localities as promised 

 to yield fresh information respecting the rocks in which he was 



