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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  this 
  association 
  : 
  the 
  former, 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Travels 
  in 
  Crete,' 
  published 
  

   many 
  years 
  after, 
  repeatedly 
  referred 
  to 
  Prof. 
  Forbes 
  as 
  his 
  guide 
  

   in 
  scientific 
  inquiry 
  ; 
  and 
  Sir 
  R. 
  Murchison, 
  in 
  his 
  address 
  to 
  the 
  

   Royal 
  Geographical 
  Society 
  in 
  1865, 
  whilst 
  speaking 
  in 
  the 
  highest 
  

   terms 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  just 
  quoted 
  as 
  a 
  '• 
  masterly 
  illustration 
  of 
  the 
  

   physical 
  geography, 
  geology, 
  archaeology, 
  natural 
  history, 
  and 
  

   scenery 
  of 
  the 
  diversified 
  island 
  of 
  Crete," 
  adds 
  that 
  " 
  without 
  the 
  

   deep 
  soundings 
  and 
  dredgings 
  conducted 
  by 
  Captain 
  Spratt, 
  we 
  

   should 
  never 
  have 
  obtained 
  the 
  grand 
  views 
  of 
  Edward 
  Forbes 
  on 
  

   the 
  submarine 
  zones 
  inhabited 
  by 
  different 
  classes 
  of 
  animals." 
  The 
  

   two 
  friends 
  published 
  a 
  joint 
  work 
  ' 
  Travels 
  in 
  Lycia, 
  Milyas, 
  and 
  

   the 
  Cibyratis 
  ' 
  in 
  1847, 
  full 
  of 
  sketches 
  and 
  plans 
  (for 
  both 
  were 
  

   accomplished 
  draughtsmen), 
  and 
  replete 
  with 
  details 
  of 
  ancient 
  cities 
  

   and 
  of 
  the 
  rocks 
  from 
  which 
  their 
  building-stones 
  were 
  derived. 
  

  

  From 
  1845 
  to 
  1860 
  Captain 
  Spratt 
  was 
  a 
  not 
  unfrequent 
  con- 
  

   tributor 
  to 
  the 
  Society's 
  Journal, 
  all 
  his 
  papers 
  describing 
  the 
  

   geology 
  of 
  various 
  countries 
  in 
  the 
  Levant. 
  He 
  paid 
  especial 
  atten- 
  

   tion 
  to 
  the 
  freshwater 
  Tertiary 
  beds 
  of 
  the 
  Greek 
  islands, 
  the 
  shores 
  

   of 
  Asia 
  Minor, 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Danube, 
  and 
  several 
  of 
  

   his 
  communications 
  refer 
  to 
  these 
  formations. 
  At 
  a 
  later 
  period 
  he 
  

   published 
  in 
  our 
  Journal 
  some 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  bone-caves 
  of 
  Malta, 
  

   and 
  on 
  the 
  coal-deposits 
  of 
  Erekli 
  in 
  Bithynia. 
  Bat 
  he 
  contributed 
  

   to 
  other 
  publications 
  many 
  valuable 
  observations 
  on 
  deep 
  soundings, 
  

   on 
  current-action, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  deltas 
  of 
  the 
  Nile 
  and 
  Danube. 
  His 
  

   principal 
  work, 
  however, 
  after 
  his 
  retirement 
  from 
  active 
  naval 
  

   service 
  was 
  that 
  already 
  mentioned 
  — 
  his 
  ' 
  Travels 
  and 
  Researches 
  in 
  

   Crete,' 
  in 
  two 
  volumes, 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  1865. 
  This 
  gave 
  an 
  

   account 
  of 
  his 
  journeys 
  through 
  the 
  island 
  in 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  

   hydrographical 
  survey 
  of 
  its 
  coasts, 
  his 
  identifications 
  of 
  ancient 
  

   sites, 
  and 
  many 
  notes 
  on 
  physical 
  geography, 
  geology, 
  and 
  zoology. 
  

  

  The 
  Rt. 
  Hon. 
  Charles 
  Shaw 
  Lefevre, 
  Viscount 
  EvERSLEr, 
  

   G.C.B., 
  D.C.L., 
  Hon. 
  M.Inst.C.E., 
  who 
  died 
  December 
  28, 
  1888, 
  

   had 
  been 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  Society 
  for 
  58 
  years. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  

   1794, 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  eldest 
  son 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  Shaw, 
  M.P. 
  for 
  Reading, 
  

   and 
  of 
  Helena, 
  the 
  daughter 
  of 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Lefevre, 
  a 
  descendant 
  of 
  an 
  

   old 
  French 
  Huguenot 
  family. 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  Shaw 
  Lefevre 
  was 
  edu- 
  

   cated 
  at 
  Winchester 
  and 
  at 
  Trinity 
  College, 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  entered 
  

   Parliament 
  as 
  Member 
  for 
  Downton 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  

   joined 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society. 
  He 
  afterwards 
  represented 
  North 
  

   Hampshire. 
  He 
  was 
  Speaker 
  from 
  1839 
  to 
  1857, 
  when 
  he 
  became 
  

   a 
  peer 
  and 
  retired 
  from 
  public 
  life. 
  

  

  