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to palseontological science. His latest contribution was a joint paper 

 with Mr. A. J . Jnkes-Browne on the Chloritic Marl and Warminster 

 Oreensand, in the Geological Magazine for 1894. His papers were 

 evidently written with great care, and are characterized by lucidity 

 of expression and arrangement. 



Mr. Meyer was quiet and unassuming in manner, and ever 

 courteous and ready to impart any information that he possessed. 

 He served on the Council of this Society between the years 1871 

 and 1876. He died on July 16th, 1900. [G. W. L.] 



Geoege Higheield Moeton, born in Liverpool on July 9th, 1826, 

 was educated at the Paddington Academy, and subsequently at the 

 Liverpool Institute. Though from an early age engaged in business, 

 he devoted all the leisure-time of a long life to geological pursuits, 

 and exerted an influence upon the growth of geological knowledge 

 in his native city which it would be difficult to overestimate. 



His earliest specimens, collected during boyhood, he identified for 

 himself at the Museum of the Royal Institute, with the aid of the 

 few men who at that early date possessed the requisite knowledge. 

 In 1845 he was mainly instrumental in forming the Liverpool 

 Natural History Society, which, however, had but a short life. In 

 1859 he organized and temporarily housed the Liverpool Geological 

 Society, holding the office of Honorary Secretary until the year 

 1885, and that of President during the sessions 1868-69, 1869-70, 

 1885-86, and 1886-87. 



During the forty years of his membership he read no less than 

 sixty-two papers before the Liverpool Geological Society, nearly all 

 of which contained original observations on the geology of the 

 neighbourhood; while he found time also to contribute several 

 communications to the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liver- 

 pool, the earliest dating so far back as 1856. In 1863 he collected 

 his observations in one volume, under the title of ' The Geology of 

 the Country around Liverpool.' In 1891 he brought out a second 

 edition of this work, which was followed by an Appendix in 1897. 



This great record of work did not pass unrecognized, and in 1887 

 he received from the members of the Liverpool Geological Society a 

 handsome testimonial, in appreciation of the great services which he 

 had rendered to local geology. During and after 1864 he had also 

 ])erformed the duties of lecturer at Queen's College, Liverpool, in 

 a manner which led, in 1868, to the presentation of a testimonial 

 from his students ' in appreciation of the great assiduity of their 

 teacher of geology.' 



