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London basin. The valuable temperature observations made in the 

 same boring were taken under his personal supervision. The geolo- 

 gical results obtained were published by him conjointly with Prof. 

 Judd in our Journal for the years 1884 and 1885. Mr. Homersham 

 became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 

 1881, and was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1882. He died 

 on 31st January last at the early age of 36. 



Mr. Edwakd Bykon^ Lindon, who was killed in July lasib whilst 

 descending a shaft in the Copeland District, New South "Wales, was 

 born in Lancaster in 1860. He became an Associate of the Hoyal 

 School of Mines in 1880, and a Fellow of this Society in 1890. 



In 1885 he went to Victoria and thence to Queensland, where 

 he was appointed Mineralogist to the Brisbane Museum. In 1887 

 he commenced practice as a mining engineer in Brisbane. He 

 published some papers on Australian minerals in the Proceedings of 

 the Hoyal Society of Queensland. 



Thomas Eoberts, M.A., who died on 24th January last, began his 

 scientific career at the University College of Wales, Aberystwith. 

 In 1879 he entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, and took a high 

 place in the Natural Science Tripos, geology being his chief subject. 

 In 1883 he succeeded the late E. B. Tawney as Assistant to the 

 Woodwardian Professor. In addition to discharging the duties of 

 this office he gave lectures and demonstrations chiefly relating to 

 palaeontology. 



His most important contributions to science were published in 

 the Journal of this Society, on the Correlation of the Upper Jurassic 

 Rocks of the Swiss Jura with those of England, on the Upper Jurassic 

 Clays of Lincolnshire, and (conjointly with Mr. Marr) on the Lower 

 Palseozoic Hocks of Haverfordwest. In 1886 his essay on * the 

 Jurassic Eocks of the neighbourhood of Cambridge' gained the 

 Sedgwick Prize. He likewise published several palaeontological 

 papers. Full of promise, and amid the regret of a large circle of 

 friends, he has been cut off by the prevalent scourge of influenza at 

 the early age of 35. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 1883, and in 1888 received part of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund. 



Charles Smith Wilkinson, whose name is familiar in connexion 

 with the Geology of New South Wales, was born in North- 

 amptonshire in 1843. In 1852 his family settled in Melbourne, 



