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and published a few papers on geological subjects, two of which 

 appeared in our Quarterly Journal, he was best known as a diligent 

 and successful collector of fossils. In that capacity he did good 

 service to the science, and the valuable series of specimens, amount- 

 ing to more than 20,000, which he gathered together, now form part 

 of the treasures of the British Museum and the Museum of Practical 

 Geology in Jermyn Street ; while a portion of them has found a 

 place in the Devizes Museum, of which he was one of the founders 

 and the honorary curator. He will be remembered among those 

 enthusiastic and helpful cultivators of geology to whose industry, as 

 collectors of fossils, so much of our knowledge of the faunas and 

 floras of the English Secondary rocks is due. He joined the Society 

 in 1854, so that he had continued to be a Fellow for more than 

 half a century. 



George Frederick Harris, born in 1862, turned his attention at 

 an early age to geology and archaeology, and enlarged his experience 

 by travel in Europe, Northern Africa, and the United States. Some 

 of his observations abroad formed the subject of papers published 

 in the ' Geological Magazine.' He devoted much time and thought 

 to the details of Tertiary geology, more especially to the mollusca 

 of foreign Tertiary formations. In conjunction with our Fellow, 

 Mr. Henry "W. Burrows, he published an account of the Eocene 

 and Oligocene divisions of the Paris Basin. He prepared a volu- 

 minous Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca of Australia contained 

 in the Geological Department of the British Museum, and added an 

 Appendix to Mr. E. B. Newton's Systematic List of British Oligo- 

 cene and Eocene Mollusca in the British Museum. But besides 

 these and other contributions to the strictly scientific side of 

 geology, he showed a livery interest in the economic applications of 

 our science, which he thought were too little regarded by geologists, 

 especially by those in official positions. For more than twenty 

 years he was a contributor to the ' Builder,' and published in that 

 journal a series of useful articles on ' Building-Stones ' which were 

 afterwards issued as a separate volume. Another practical work 

 of his appeared with the title of ' Granites & Granite-Industries/ 

 while a third was devoted to ' The Science of Brickmakinsr.' 

 Having received a part of his education at the Birkbeck Institution, 

 he continued in after-life to manifest his interest in that establish- 

 ment, and for nearly twenty years was its Lecturer on Geology. 

 He became a Fellow of this Society in 1885. After a prolonged 



