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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  to 
  drive 
  a 
  submarine 
  tunnel 
  across 
  the 
  Straits 
  of 
  Dover, 
  which 
  would 
  

   have 
  to 
  traverse 
  it. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  many 
  eminent 
  mineralogists 
  and 
  geologists 
  with 
  whom 
  

   it 
  was 
  his 
  fortune 
  to 
  associate 
  are 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  Hatiy, 
  De 
  la 
  Fosse, 
  

   Gustav 
  Eose, 
  Naumann, 
  Jameson, 
  Leonard 
  Horner, 
  Buckland, 
  

   Conybeare, 
  De 
  la 
  Beche, 
  Murchison, 
  Lyell, 
  Elie 
  de 
  Beaumont, 
  

   *Dufresnoy, 
  &c. 
  

  

  Enough 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  to 
  show 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  lost 
  another 
  of 
  the 
  

   great 
  pioneers 
  whose 
  whole 
  life 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  

   geology, 
  working 
  out 
  the 
  outlines 
  of 
  large 
  areas 
  of 
  geological 
  forma- 
  

   tions 
  without 
  the 
  aid 
  of 
  railway 
  transport 
  and 
  sections. 
  

  

  Ami 
  Boue 
  died 
  at 
  Vienna 
  on 
  the 
  21st 
  of 
  November, 
  1881, 
  in 
  his 
  

   89th 
  year 
  ; 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  to 
  regret 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  oldest 
  

   Foreign 
  Members. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Edward 
  William 
  Binney 
  was 
  born 
  at 
  Morton 
  in 
  Somerset- 
  

   shire, 
  in 
  1812. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  articled 
  to 
  a 
  Solicitor 
  in 
  Chesterfield, 
  and, 
  after 
  spending 
  

   some 
  time 
  in 
  Lcndon, 
  settled 
  in 
  Manchester 
  in 
  1836, 
  residing 
  

   chiefly 
  at 
  Cheetham 
  Hill. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Binney 
  soon 
  retired 
  from 
  legal 
  practice, 
  having 
  had 
  no 
  special 
  

   love 
  for 
  the 
  law. 
  About 
  two 
  years 
  after 
  he 
  took 
  up 
  his 
  residence 
  in 
  

   Manchester, 
  he, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  scientific 
  friends, 
  founded 
  the 
  

   Manchester 
  Geological 
  Society, 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  

   work 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Hey 
  wood 
  — 
  the 
  late 
  Lord 
  Francis 
  Egerton, 
  M.P., 
  being 
  

   the 
  first 
  President, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Binney 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  secretaries. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Binney 
  commenced 
  the 
  collection 
  (afterwards 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  of 
  that 
  Society) 
  which 
  was 
  subsequently 
  transferred 
  to 
  

   the 
  Natural-History 
  Museum, 
  and 
  thence 
  to 
  Owens 
  College. 
  

  

  In 
  1857 
  Mr. 
  Binney 
  was 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Manchester 
  Geological 
  

   Society, 
  and 
  again 
  in 
  1865. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  successively 
  Secretary, 
  

   Vice-President, 
  and 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  Literary 
  and 
  Philosophical 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Manchester; 
  the 
  last-mentioned 
  office, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  

   filled 
  for 
  nearly 
  a 
  hundred 
  years 
  by 
  men 
  of 
  eminence, 
  he 
  occupied 
  

   at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  death. 
  His 
  interest 
  in 
  this 
  Society 
  never 
  flagged 
  ; 
  

   and 
  he 
  contributed 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  sixty-one 
  papers 
  to 
  their 
  Trans- 
  

   actions. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Binney 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  our 
  Society 
  in 
  1853, 
  and 
  of 
  

   the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  in 
  1856. 
  As 
  a 
  geologist, 
  especially 
  of 
  the 
  coal 
  

   counties, 
  Mr. 
  Binney 
  stood 
  preeminent 
  ; 
  he 
  took 
  great 
  delight 
  in 
  

   encouraging 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  nature 
  among 
  the 
  working 
  classes, 
  spend- 
  

   ing 
  much 
  of 
  his 
  time 
  with 
  them, 
  and 
  also 
  taking 
  geological 
  ex- 
  

   cursions 
  with 
  them. 
  

  

  His 
  industry 
  is 
  evidenced 
  by 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  his 
  scientific 
  papers 
  

   and 
  notes, 
  of 
  which 
  nearly 
  100 
  have 
  been 
  published. 
  Ten 
  of 
  them 
  

   appear 
  in 
  our 
  own 
  Journal. 
  To 
  the 
  Palaeontographical 
  Society, 
  of 
  

   which 
  he 
  was 
  Vice-President, 
  he 
  contributed 
  a 
  monograph 
  on 
  the 
  

   Structure 
  of 
  Fossil-plants 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  Strata. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Binney 
  was 
  seized 
  with 
  paralysis 
  whilst 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  boat 
  

  

  