Iviii PROCEEDIISrGS Of THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May IQOI,. 



He was a Eellow of the Zoological Society, and since 1872 a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society. He was a generous, loving, and trust- 

 worthy friend, and will be much missed by those who knew him 

 best. [E. T. N.] 



James Thomson, so well known for his researches among the 

 Scottish Carboniferous Corals, was born at Kilmarnock on December 

 18th, 1823. Of humble parentage he had, when quite a child, tO' 

 seek employment, and thus contribute to the general support of the 

 family. His education, in consequence, was the outcome of his own 

 strong and earnest nature. The business of his life came to be 

 that of a commercial traveller, in which he continued until upwards 

 of 70 years of age ; but his interests were early in life concentrated 

 on natural-history subjects, and on geology in particular. He 

 became a Fellow of our Society in 1868, and was an old member 

 of the Glasgow Geological Society, to whose Transactions he con- 

 tributed papers on the geology of Campbeltown, Islay, Arran, etc. 

 His chief work, however, was the collection and description of the 

 Corals from the Carboniferous E-ocks of Scotland, and bis treasures 

 were presented by him to his native town, where they are preserved 

 in the Museum buildings at Elmbank. He was for many years an 

 attendant at the Meetings of the British Association, and there, as 

 elsewhere, his hearty, genial nature won him numerous friends. 



He died on May 14th, 1900, in his 77th year. [H. B. W.]. 



Chaeles Tylden-Weight, J.P., who died on August 8th, 1900^ 

 was an eminent mining-engineer, whose name had been on our 

 roll of Fellows since 1857. The son of the Eev. E. C. Wright,, 

 of Pitsford (Northamptonshire), he assumed the name of Tylden- 

 Wright, by Eoyal licence, on his marriage, in 1860, with Elizabeth, 

 the only child of Sir John Maxwell Tylden. Mr. Tylden- Wright 

 received his education at Marlborough College, and at the Eoyal 

 School of Mines. For twenty-six years he was Managing Director 

 of the Shireoaks Colliery ; at one time he was Chief Agent to the 

 Earl of Dudley, and he also held the position of viewer to the 

 Duchy of Lancaster, to the Duke of St. Albans, and to Mr. Webb, 

 of Newstead Abbey. Mr. Tylden- Wright's only communication to 

 this Society was a description of the sinking through Permian rocks 

 to the Barnsley coal, at Shireoaks, in 1859. He died at his 

 residence at Mapperley Hall, JN'ottingham, at the age of 68. 



[F. W. E.] 



