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to the British Trias. In 1903 he was appointed Secretary of a 

 Committee of the British Association to investigate the fauna and 

 flora of the Trias of the British Isles, which has ever since published 

 an annual report; the sixth, and unfortunately the last written by 

 him, was presented to the meeting in Dublin last year. 



At the same meeting a Committee was appointed, with Lomas as 

 secretary, to investigate some salt-lakes near Biskra, with a view 

 to throwing additional light on the British Trias. A few months 

 after his appointment, Lomas started with great enthusiasm on this 

 expedition; but, while proceeding to Biskra, the train from Algiers 

 to Constantine was wrecked in a terrible accident, and Lomas was 

 found amongst the killed. This was on December 16th, 1908. 



He was a Member of the Liverpool Geological Society, and 

 was elected its President in 1897 and 1898, and again in 1909 in 

 view of the Jubilee of the Society. He was appointed secretary to 

 Section C of the British Association in 1899, and held that office 

 up to the time of his death. Lomas was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society in 1897, the year in which he received the 

 Lyell Award. Some of his papers have appeared in our Journal, 

 and one in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ; but the majority 

 are printed in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society. 



Lomas was fully alive to the importance of travel : he visited 

 Switzerland several times with the view of studying glaciers, and 

 accompanied the British Association in its journey through Africa 

 in 1905, making the fullest use of his opportunities in the obser- 

 vation of desert-phenomena. 



His modest, earnest, unaffected, and amiable disposition had 

 endeared him to a large circle of friends. 



Jacob Hort Player (1834-1908). — Jacob Hort Player, born on 

 December 18th, 1834, was the son of a chemist living at Frome 

 in Somerset. "While he was still a child, his father retired 

 from business and removed to Devizes, where young Player 

 was educated. After leaving school he worked with chemists 

 at Bedford, London, Reading, and Weymouth, taking the medal 

 of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1854. On leaving Weymouth 

 he joined the well-known firm of Albright & Wilson, manufac- 

 turers of phosphorus, at Oldbury in Worcestershire, as analytical 

 chemist, and so improved their methods of working that he soon 

 became a partner in the firm. On retiring from business he 

 interested himself in the analysis of silicates, and thus came into 



