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In 1899 he put the finishing touches to a work which had occupied 

 much of his life. Few of the exposures of rock made in and about 

 Liverpool had escaped his notice. By systematically recording upon 

 the 6-inch Ordnance map the faults and boundaries of formations 

 thus revealed, he was in a position, after more than forty years' 

 work, to map the geology of the city with a degree of accuracy 

 •unattainable by any other means. In 1899 he allowed copies of 

 those 6-inch sheets to be made for the use of the Geological 

 Survey, the Liverpool Free Library, and the Liverpool Geological 

 :Society. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1858, and was pre- 

 sented with the Lyell Medal in 1892, in recognition of his long 

 and meritorious services to Geology in the work done around Liver- 

 pool, both on the Triassic rocks and on the Glacial phenomena. He 

 read two papers before this Society, one on Glacial Surface-markings 

 on the Sandstone near Liverpool, published in Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 •Soc. vol. xviii (1862) p. 377, and the other on the Carboniferous 

 Limestone of the Country around Llandudno, published in the same 

 Journal, vol. liv (1898) p. 382. 



He was a constant attendant at the Meetings of the British 

 Association, and served as Secretary to Section C at Liverpool in 

 1870, and as Vice-President at Southport in 1883. 



Among Mr. Morton's latest and most important researches were 

 those in which he established and traced along the North Wales border 

 a zonal and stratigraphical classification of the Lower Carboniferous 

 Rocks, the last contribution to that series of papers being * On the 

 Carboniferous Limestone of Anglesey,' which was read before the 

 Liverpool Geological Society eight months after his death. His 

 field-work was conducted on a true method, for he combined the 

 .qualities, self-acquired but of no mean order, of a stratigraphist and 

 palaeontologist. His papers embody the history of a long and 

 painstaking career in the field ; he wrote simply and briefly, for 

 the purpose of recording original observations, and his writings will 

 place future generations of geologists under a lasting obligation. 

 He died at Liverpool on March 30th, 1900. [A. S.] 



A distinguished investigator in that department of Science where 

 Oeology borders on Archaeology, has passed away by the death of 

 Lieutenant-Gen oral Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S. 

 To geologists he is probably best known by his discoveries of flint- 

 implements and bones of Pleistocene mammals in the Thames- 

 Yalley gravels at Acton and Ealing. At the time of these 



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