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of the place of the Plymouth limestone in the British Series ; but 

 he did know the near resemblance of several species of his Plymouth 

 fossils to those of the mountain limestone. More than this, he had 

 traced the line of Plymouth limestone into White Sand Bay on the 

 Cornish side of the great estuary, and he had done this by help of 

 fossils. For the mass of limestone thins off, and you can only follov*^ 

 its line by help of some very insignificant reddish calcareous bands 

 with a few fossils (especially encrinites) which he identified with those 

 in his Plymouth limestone. This was really good geological work ; 

 and remember it was done before 1819, when he was becoming old 

 and had not the leisure for travelling ; — remember too the exist- 

 ing state of knowledge. In 1836 I followed the fossil bands from 

 Plymouth to Fowey? Veryan, ike, and thence to the slates north of the 

 Lizard Serpentine. I was in fact only following out what was a 

 corollary from the work of Hennah before 1819. In 1836 De la 

 Beche had not touched the south-west coast of Cornwall, so my work 

 was original in one sense; but it was, I say, suggested by Hennah's 

 work, and I only took the subject up where he had left it off'." 



The two eminent persons I have mentioned lived to an advanced 

 period of life ; but he whose loss I have now to speak of has been 

 taken from us in the vigour of manhood. 



Mr. Charles Turton Kaye was born in London in 1812, and 

 from school went to the East India Company's College at Hayley- 

 bury in 1829, where he distinguished himself and gained the Clas- 

 sical Medal at his first examination in 1830. In the spring of 1831 

 he proceeded to India, having obtained an appointment in the civil 

 service, in the presidency of Madras. In the College of Fort St. 

 George he obtained the thousand-pagoda prize for proficiency in the 

 native languages. He was at first employed in the revenue depart- 

 ment, and was shortly afterwards appointed Assistant to the Ac- 

 countant-General of Madras; but in 1838 he received the more 

 important appointment of a Judge at Cuddalore, on the Coromandel 

 coast. Hitherto his attention had been more directed to literature 

 than to science, and accidental circumstances appear to have led him 

 to geological studies. In conjunction with his friend Mr. Brooke 

 Cunliffe, also resident at Cuddalore, now a Fellow of this Society, 

 he examined in 1841 a neighbouring district, which is remarkable 

 from containing fossil wood in great abundance, and where they 

 collected a considerable number of other organic remains. They 

 afterwards obtained many specimens of fossils from a limestone in 

 the neighbourhood of Pondicherry and Trichinopoly. Mr. Kaye 

 came to England on leave of absence in the spring of 1842, bring- 

 ing the collection with him which he presented in his own name 

 and that of Mr. Cunliffe to this Society. He drew up a short me- 

 moir, describing generally the structure of the country from which 

 he had obtained the fossils, which was read on the 29th June 1842 ; 

 and that memoir, together with two reports, the one by Sir Philip 

 Egerton " On the Remains of Fishes," the other by Professor E. 

 Forbes '* On the Fossil Invertebrata of the Collection," have, as you 



