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the Geological Conditions of their Growth ' (1888) ; ' The Clays of 

 Hampshire & their Economic Uses' (1890); 'Springs & Streams 

 of Hampshire' (1891), 'Hampshire Valleys & Waterways ' (1895) ; 

 'The Physical Geology & Early Archaeological Associations of the 

 Neighbourhood of Cheriton ' (1900); and a paper, written with 

 Mr. Elwes, on ' The New Dock-Excavation at Southampton r 

 (1889). He also wrote the geological article for the British 

 Association Guide to Southampton and the neighbourhood (1882). 



The Eev. Henry Palin Gurney, M.A. (Cantab.), Hon.D.C.L, 

 (Durham), was born in London in 1847, and educated at the City of 

 London School and at Clare College, Cambridge ; he took his degree 

 in 1870, being 14th Wrangler, and obtaining a First Class in the 

 Natural Sciences Tripos in company with J. Wale Hicks (afterwards 

 Bishop of Bloemfontein) and Francis Darwin. He was elected to a 

 Fellowship at Clare College, and, after a short period of parochial 

 work, became a partner with the late Mr. Wren in the well-known 

 ' coaching ' establishment, through which so many candidates for 

 examinations have passed. In 1894 he was appointed Principal 

 of the Durham College of Science at Newcastle, where he also held 

 the Professorship of Mathematics, and for some time the Lectureship 

 in Mineralogy. He had previously acted as Deputy-Professor of 

 Mineralogy at Cambridge, and on several occasions examined for 

 the Natural Sciences Tripos. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1877, but contributed 

 no paper to our Journal, although he was the author of several 

 books and memoirs, including a ' Manual of Crystallography.' 



Principal Gurney's energy, ability, and courtesy caused him to be 

 greatly esteemed at Newcastle as elsewhere, and, apart from the 

 work connected with the College, he was an active member of 

 many committees and other bodies engaged in affairs of divers kinds. 



He died, as the result of an accident, on the mountains of Arolla, 

 in August 1904. 



Franz McClean, M.A. (Cantab.), Hon. LL.D. (Glasgow), F.R.S., 

 F.R.A.S., M.Inst.C.E., was the son of J. It. McClean, F.R.S., the 

 well-known engineer. Born in 1837, he was educated at West- 

 minster School and at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge. 

 His name appeared in the list of Wranglers in the Mathematical. 

 Tripos of 1859. He then adopted the profession of an engineer, 

 and, being apprenticed to Sir John Hawkshaw, took part in the 

 drainage of the Fenland. He afterwards became a partner in the 



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