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relative to fossil localities, permission to examine his rich Collection, and also 

 his notes upon this part of the North Devon coast. He has himself catalogued 

 and noted upwards of 50 species from the Ilfracombe group alone, a work of 

 considerable time and labour.' 



Again (p. 606), Etheridge stated that 



' Mr Valpy has obtained in many places along the coast good evidence of 

 the existence of fish through the remains of bones and coprolites, but no teeth 

 or scales so as to enable us to determine their genera. None but a local 

 observer can do justice to the difficult and obscure structure of this coast; and no 

 one has worked it out so patiently as, or with more detail than, Mr. Valpy.' 



Not a few men have similarly rendered service to science without 

 any desire for recognition. Mr. Valpy was especially averse to 

 publicity, and a little work which he wrote, entitled * Notes on the 

 Geology of Ilfracombe & the Neighbourhood,' was issued anony- 

 mously, ' by a Resident,' and in the fourth edition, ' by a late 

 Resident.' It was published by Twiss & Sons, Ilfracombe, but 

 undated. Mr. Valpy was educated at Harrow, and Balliol College, 

 Oxford, and was the only son of Capt. Anthony B. Valpy, R.N"., of 

 Combe Lodge, Blagdon (Somerset). In 1849 he purchased the 

 Enborne-Lodge estate near Newbury in Berkshire, and there he spent 

 most of his time during the later years of his life. [H. B. W.] 



By the death of William Ferguson, F.L.S., the Society loses a 

 Fellow who had belonged to it for half a century, for he had been 

 elected as long ago as 1854. He contributed to our Journal a 

 paper on ' Chalk-Flints & Greensand found in Aberdeenshire ' 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiii (1857) p. 88. 



The Rev. Henry Brass, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Redhill, was a 

 Fellow of our Society for nearly 50 years, having been elected 

 in 1857. He took his degree at Cambridge in 1854, his name 

 appearing in the Mathematical Tripos list and also in that of the 

 Natural Sciences Tripos for the same year, with marks of dis- 

 tinction in Geology and Mineralogy. He was appointed Vicar of 

 St. Matthew's in 1866. Though not a member of the Geologists' 

 Association, he took a keen interest in the geology of the district 

 around Reigate, and was always ready to let members of that 

 Association know of new sections, and to give general assistance in 

 connection with its excursions : for this he received the thanks of 

 the Council at the Annual Meeting of the Association in 1895. 



Charles Ricketts, M.D., was born at Titchfield (Hants), in 1818. 

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