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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  TELE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  General 
  of 
  Mines, 
  and 
  the 
  south-eastern 
  district 
  of 
  Prance 
  was 
  

   put 
  under 
  his 
  charge. 
  He 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society 
  in 
  1859. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Exposition 
  Universelle 
  de 
  1855 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  remarkable 
  

   collection 
  of 
  mineral 
  substances 
  used 
  as 
  building- 
  materials. 
  Delesse 
  

   was 
  Secretary 
  to 
  the 
  Jury 
  of 
  Class 
  XIY. 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  

   his 
  " 
  Pappoit 
  sur 
  les 
  Materiaux 
  de 
  construction 
  de 
  l'Exposition 
  

   Universelle 
  " 
  appeared. 
  Of 
  the 
  very 
  numerous 
  and 
  valuable 
  con- 
  

   tributions 
  made 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  ' 
  Annales 
  des 
  Mines 
  ' 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  

   thirty-nine 
  years, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  is 
  his 
  " 
  Revue 
  des 
  

   Progres 
  de 
  Geologie," 
  commencing 
  with 
  the 
  year 
  1860, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  

   sixteenth 
  and 
  last 
  part 
  appeared 
  in 
  1880. 
  In 
  this 
  work 
  he 
  was 
  

   assisted 
  first 
  by 
  M. 
  A. 
  Laugel, 
  and 
  subsequently 
  by 
  M. 
  A. 
  de 
  Lap- 
  

   parent. 
  His 
  memoirs 
  in 
  the 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  Academy 
  

   of 
  Sciences, 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  of 
  France, 
  and 
  other 
  societies 
  

   are 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  value, 
  combining, 
  as 
  they 
  do, 
  the 
  most 
  careful 
  

   work 
  of 
  the 
  laboratory 
  with 
  observations 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  field, 
  which 
  

   his 
  numerous 
  travels 
  in 
  France, 
  Germany, 
  Poland, 
  England 
  and 
  

   Ireland 
  enabled 
  him 
  to 
  make. 
  His 
  attention 
  was 
  first 
  mostly 
  

   directed 
  to 
  mineralogy 
  and 
  the 
  chemical 
  composition 
  of 
  minerals. 
  

   His 
  subsequent 
  researches 
  on 
  the 
  composition, 
  origin, 
  and 
  metamor- 
  

   phism 
  of 
  rocks 
  have 
  done 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  elucidation 
  of 
  those 
  subjects. 
  

  

  The 
  subterranean 
  inundations 
  of 
  the 
  northern 
  quarter 
  of 
  Paris 
  

   in 
  1856 
  caused 
  him 
  to 
  examine 
  into 
  their 
  origin, 
  and, 
  with 
  the 
  

   aid 
  of 
  MM. 
  Beaulieu 
  and 
  Yvert, 
  he 
  produced 
  an 
  elaborate 
  report 
  

   upon 
  them 
  in 
  1861, 
  which 
  was 
  followed 
  in 
  1867 
  by 
  his 
  ' 
  Carte 
  

   hydrologique 
  du 
  Departement 
  de 
  la 
  Seine,' 
  also 
  by 
  his 
  ' 
  Carte 
  hydro- 
  

   logique 
  de 
  Seine-et-Marne.' 
  In 
  1871 
  his 
  important 
  work 
  ' 
  Lithologie 
  

   des 
  Mers 
  de 
  France 
  et 
  des 
  Mers 
  principales 
  du 
  Globe 
  ' 
  appeared. 
  

  

  For 
  many 
  years 
  he 
  paid 
  special 
  attention 
  to 
  economic 
  geology, 
  

   more 
  especially 
  as 
  regards 
  agriculture, 
  as 
  his 
  maps 
  and 
  papers 
  tes- 
  

   tify. 
  Achille 
  Delesse 
  wrote 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  120 
  papers. 
  He 
  was 
  

   made 
  a 
  Chevalier 
  of 
  the 
  Legion 
  of 
  Honour 
  in 
  1854, 
  and 
  Officer 
  in 
  

   1876 
  ; 
  and 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Foreign 
  Member 
  of 
  our 
  Society 
  in 
  1859. 
  

  

  He 
  died 
  on 
  the 
  24th 
  of 
  March, 
  1881, 
  having 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  very 
  last 
  

   continued 
  to 
  labour 
  for 
  the 
  science 
  to 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  devoted 
  him- 
  

   self. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Antonio 
  Brady 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Plymouth 
  in 
  1811, 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  

   eldest 
  son 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Anthony 
  Brady, 
  of 
  Plymouth. 
  He 
  entered 
  

   the 
  Civil 
  Service 
  of 
  the 
  Navy 
  as 
  a 
  junior 
  clerk 
  after 
  serving 
  in 
  various 
  

   offices 
  ; 
  and 
  having 
  been 
  promoted 
  to 
  head 
  quarters 
  in 
  the 
  Victual- 
  

   ling 
  Yard, 
  Deptford, 
  upwards 
  of 
  fifty 
  years 
  since, 
  he 
  became 
  head 
  

   of 
  the 
  Contract 
  Office, 
  and 
  Registrar 
  of 
  Public 
  Securities 
  in 
  1854. 
  

   He 
  was 
  also 
  appointed 
  first 
  Superintendant 
  of 
  the 
  Purchase 
  and 
  

   Contract 
  Department. 
  In 
  1870 
  he 
  retired 
  from 
  the 
  Service, 
  and 
  

   received 
  the 
  honour 
  of 
  knighthood. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Antonio 
  was 
  in 
  the 
  Commission 
  of 
  the 
  Peace 
  for 
  Westminster. 
  

   Since 
  his 
  retirement 
  from 
  public 
  service 
  Sir 
  Antonio 
  took 
  a 
  leading 
  

   part 
  in 
  the 
  preservation 
  of 
  Epping 
  Forest 
  for 
  the 
  people, 
  and 
  M 
  r 
  as 
  

  

  