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mission appointed in 1870 to report upon Scientific Instruction and 

 the Advancement of Science, and he took infinite pains in the 

 enquiry, evincing from beginning to end the warmest interest in the 

 evidence collected. He was elected a Pellow of this Society in 1829, 

 and is thus the oldest member who has been removed from aiiiong 

 us during the past year. He was born in 1808, and died on 

 December 21st, 1891. 



The Earl of Northesk specially interested himself in stone- 

 implements, of which he formed a large collection. With great 

 liberality, he lent this collection for exhibition in various local 

 museums, where its contents have been much appreciated. At 

 present it is located in the Winchester Museum, where it fills two 

 rooms. The Earl was elected a Eellow of our Society in 1883. 

 He was born in 1843, and died on September 9th last. 



Frederic Drew was born on 11th August, 1836, at Southampton. 

 In 1853 he entered the Royal School of Mines, where his career was 

 unusually distinguished. In 1855 he joined the Geological Survey, 

 and during the short time of his service did much valuable work in 

 the South-east of England. Although the general succession of the 

 Lower Cretaceous rocks round the borders of the Weald was then well 

 established, little was known of the area of the Hastings Sands, 

 The subdivisions of these strata were traced out by Mr. Drew over 

 a large tract of country, and the names given by him have passed 

 into the accepted nomenclature of English geology. Fitton had 

 noted the subdivisions of the Lower Greensand on the coast of 

 Kent, and had suggested correlations with other districts inland, 

 but Mr. Drew was the first who mapped those subdivisions along 

 the northern side of the Weald. He also gave them the names by 

 which they are now known. The general results of his survey of 

 the Hastings Sands were published in the Journal of this Society 

 for 1861, and those of his examination of the Lower Greensand 

 divisions in the Geological Survey Memoir on Eomney Marsh 

 in 1864. 



In 1862 Mr. Drew retired from the Geological Survey to enter 

 the service of the Maharaja of Kashmir. The opportunities for 

 geological research which he had expected to find in this new field 

 proved less favourable than he had been induced to anticipate ; but 

 he was soon advanced to more responsible work, for, having gained 

 the confidence and esteem of the ruler of the country, he was 

 appointed Governor of Jummoo, and afterwards of Ladak. 



