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Rector of Smarden, Kent, whom he had married in 1886, died 

 shortly after his departure for Baroda, and this bereavement cast a 

 shadow over the rest of his life. Yet he fought, and fought stoutly, 

 for the opinions he held on questions of keen controversy at the time. 

 But he was always a courteous and kindly combatant, for whom 

 even his keenest opponent could not but have a friendly regard. 



Prof. Blake's numerous contributions to the literature of our 

 science range over an ample field of geological research. Perhaps 

 his best and most enduring stratigraphical work was that which 

 he devoted to the stratigraphy and palaeontology of the English 

 Secondary formations. His papers on the Kimeridge Clay and 

 on the Portland Kocks of England, published in our Quarterly 

 Journal, are excellent examples of his methods of investigation and 

 will always hold their place in the historical development of our 

 knowledge of these important portions of the geological record. His 

 ' Yorkshire Lias/ written in conjunction with Prof. Ealph Tate, and 

 his Memoir on the ' Corallian Ptocks/ which he prepared conjointly 

 with Mr. W. H. Hudleston, are standard treatises on their respective 

 subjects. In further continuation of these earlier studies, he was 

 engaged in his later years in preparing a monograph on the Eauna 

 of the Cornbrash for the Palseontographical Society, of which only 

 the first part has been published. He did not restrict himself, 

 however, to the Mesozoic formations. Some of his most strenuous 

 labour was devoted to the endeavour to work out the structure and 

 relations of the oldest rocks of Xorth Wales. He tried his hand, 

 too, among the most ancient masses of the Xorth-West Highlands. 

 And, although his conclusions on such matters have not always met 

 with general acceptance, they were usually ingenious and worthy 

 of attentive consideration. 



The Geological Society is indebted to Prof. Blake for the labour 

 which he spent upon the List of type-specimens in the Society's 

 Museum. This list, which was printed and published, forms a 

 valuable palseontologieal record. His various services to science 

 and to the Society have not passed without formal recognition 

 from us. He was elected a Fellow of the Society in 186S. 

 In 1877 the Murchison Eund was awarded to him : in 1895 he 

 received the Lyell Medal, and he has served on the Council. He 

 died in London on the 7th of July last year. 



Chaeles Eugene de Eaxce, who entered the Society in 1S69, 

 was born on November 22nd. 1847. His parents, who were both 



