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geology. He was elected a member of trie Manchester Geological 

 & Mining Society in 1356, and was President in 1861, 1877, and 

 1887. Ketaining his faculties unimpaired to the last, he attended 

 constantly and spoke frequently at the meetings. Among the 

 numerous papers contributed by him, his section of the Coal 

 Measures of Lancashire, and his reports on the rock-salt and 

 brine-deposits of Cheshire are of high value. 



He was elected to the Geological Society of London in 1842, and 

 at the time of his death was 'father' of our Society. He con- 

 tributed a paper on the ' Jackstones' of Mer.thyr Tydvil in 1846, but 

 during most of the 70 years of his Fellowship his interests were 

 chiefly centred in Manchester scientific circles. He died on. 

 April 27th, 1912, at the age of 93. [J. G.] 



[For the information on which the following notice is founded I am indebted 

 to the ' Geological Magazine ' for 1912, p. 525.] 



Robert Ashington Bullen died on August 14th, 1912. Born in 

 1850 at St. George's, Bermuda, he came to England at the age of 6, 

 and was educated at Gosport, eventually taking a B.A. degree in 

 London University. In 1875 he was ordained, and after spending 

 some years in teaching, became Vicar of Shoreham (Kent). Here 

 he was thrown into close companionship with Prestwich, and was- 

 inspired to commence investigations on the superficial deposits of the 

 Chalk Downs. Latterly he had devoted himself more especially to 

 a study of the land and fresh-water mollusca which are associated 

 with early human remains, and to the implements of flint and 

 bone identified with Palseolithic and Neolithic man. His work on 

 non-marine mollusca was of a high order, and his papers on the 

 reolian deposits of the coast at Etel ; on fossil mollusca from Alcudia 

 (Mallorca) and on Manresa (Cataluna) ; and on the geology of his 

 birth-place, the Bermudas, especially merit attention. 



He was elected into the Geological Society in 1891, and was a 

 member of several other Societies. Pew but his most intimate 

 friends can have realized how much kindness and liberality were 

 concealed by his natural modesty and dread of ostentation. 



James Parker, best known as an antiquary, was born in 1833,. 

 and died on October 10th, 1912. He was educated at Winchester, 

 and received an honorary degree of M.A. at Oxford in 1877. His 

 activities in archaeological research are manifested chiefly in the 

 Proceedings of the Oxford Architectural & Historical Society, but 

 he was publisher also of the 'Early History of Oxford,' of the 



