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point out that some of the upper red measures at Hamstead 

 properly belong to the Coal Measures, and it was his paper, read at 

 the British Association at Birmingham in 1886, which directed 

 Dr. Kidston's attention to the flora of these Upper Coal- Measure 

 rocks. About 15 years ago Meachem resigned his colliery manager- 

 ship, and commenced private practice as a mining engineer. He 

 was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1912. [W. S. B.] 



Ernest Gibson, who became a Fellow in 1913, was both a 

 Scotsman and an Argentine citizen, deeply interested in natural 

 science, and alwaj's eager to use his means and influence for its 

 promotion. For some time he was a member of the council of the 

 Palaeontographical Society, and he also took an active part in the 

 work of the Zoological Society and the British Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



The liev. Francis St. John Thackeray, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar 

 of Mapledurham for many years, and previously a classical master 

 at Eton College, died on July 14th, 1919, in his 87th year. He 

 was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1901, and was deeply 

 interested in geology, although not undertaking definite research. 

 He was a most successful collector of fossils, from both British 

 and foreign localities, and bequeathed a collection, containing 

 many hundreds of specimens from most of the geological forma- 

 tions, to the Eton-College Museum. A small and interesting series 

 of fossils from the Cretaceous opalized deposits of New South 

 Wales, including a few recently-described new species of Mollusca, 

 he generously left to the Geological Department of the British 

 Museum. He was first cousin to the famous novelist. [R. B. N.] 



Cyril Parkinson was born at Hesgreave Park, near Southwell 

 (Nottinghamshire), and died in London on August 20th, 1919, at 

 the age of 65. During five years' residence in the Isle of Wight 

 (1875-80) he made a collection of fossils, which was acquired by the 

 British Museum (Natural History). He became a Fellow of our 

 Society in 1880. He was a member of the Worcester Naturalists' 

 Club, and an occasional contributor to ' Borrow's Worcester 

 Journal' on natural histoiy subjects. He also contributed articles 

 to various periodicals on natural history, geologj", and botany, and 

 brought out a handbook of the Isle of Wight Marine Algae in 

 collaboration with Mrs. O'Brien, of Ventnor. 



