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in which he lived and worked was most intimate and reliable. He 

 was born at Gloucester in 1834, while his family was for many 

 years located at Stratton, near Cirencester. He was the cousin and 

 intimate friend of John Jones, of Gloucester, whose contributions to 

 geological literature are well known. Mr. Slatter commenced his 

 business life, when quite a young man, in the Gloucestershire Bank, 

 and then took up his abode at Evesham. He became successively 

 manager of the Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Redditch, and Evesham 

 branches of the Bank, but retired into private life a few years 

 since, and, having erected a house on Green Hill, near Evesham, 

 he removed thither his extensive and most interesting collection 

 of Liassic fossils. In 1879 he became a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society, but, to the regret of those who knew how careful an 

 observer he was, he never became the author of any work on 

 geology, nor even of any contribution to a periodical on the geology 

 of the district which he knew so well. 



George Erancis Hosking, who resided at Bendigo, Otago, New 

 Zealand, was elected a Eellow in 1891. He died at Dunedin, 

 New Zealand, August 18th, 1895. He had not contributed any 

 paper to the Society. 



By the death of Mr. James Carter, E.RC.S., which took place 

 at Cambridge on August 31st, 1895, in his 82nd year, one of the 

 few remaining links which connected the days of Sedgwick with 

 those of the modern school of geology in Cambridge has been 

 broken. During the greater part of his life Mr. Carter practised 

 as a surgeon in Cambridge, where his house, in Petty Cury, was for 

 many years the resort of the leading geologists and men of science 

 in the University, who never failed to find in Mr. and Mrs. Carter 

 genial, cultivated, and hospitable hosts. 



Mr. Carter was especially interested in palaeontology, and devoted 

 much of his time to this and other scientific subjects. He contri- 

 buted papers to the Geological Magazine and the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society, the chief being ' On a New Species of 

 Ichthyosaurus from the Chalk,' l ' On Oriihopsis Bonneyi,' 2 ' On 

 a Skull of Bos primigenius perforated by a Stone Celt,' 3 ' On the 



1 Brit. Assoc. Eeports, 1845 (1846), Sec. p. 60, and Lond. Geol. Journ. 1846, 

 vol. i. p. 8, woodcut. 



2 Geol. Mag. 1872, pi. xiii. f. 1, p. 529. 



3 Geol. Mag. 1874, p. 492. 



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