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Among our other losses, I Lave to mention that of one of our 

 oldest Fellows, John Ford, of Potter's Bar, who was elected in. 

 1859, and died on July 2nd, 1919, after a Fellowship of 60 years ;. 

 also of Col. F. S. Bowring, C.B., 11. E. (retired), of Chislehurst,. 

 who was in Army service from 1S69 to 1901, gaining distinctions 

 in the Afghan War of 1877-80, in the Burmese Expedition of 

 1886-87, and in China, 1900. He was elected a Fellow of our 

 Society in 1881, and died on March 23rd, 1919, in his 72nd year. 



Another eminent worker, at one time a Fellow of the Society, 

 was Bobert Etheridge (son of a former President, the distin- 

 guished palaeontologist of the same name), whose death occurred 

 at Colo Yale, near Sydney, on January 4th, 1920, in his 74th 

 year. Etheridge early took up geological work in Australia as a 

 member of the first Geological Survey of Victoria, under the 

 direction of A. P. C. Selwyn, in the middle 'sixties ; but later he 

 returned home, and was appointed Palaeontologist to the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland, his father being then Palaeontologist to the 

 English Survey. During the 'seventies of the last century he 

 contributed several palaeontological papers to our Journal, and, 

 in 1877, received an award from our Wollaston Donation Fund in 

 recognition of his work. When the natural-history collections of 

 the nation were removed from Bloomsbury to the new Natural 

 Histoiy Museum in Cromwell Boad, the two Etheridges were 

 brought on to the staff of the Geological Department, where the 

 memoiy still remains of the vigorous actions and language of 

 ' B. E. junior.' The chief piece of palaeontologieal work accom- 

 plished by Etheridge while in this position was a Catalogue of 

 •the Blastoidea, in which he had the cooperation of P. Herbert 

 Carpenter. 



Atistralia, however, was never far away from the thoughts of 

 Etheridge. He compiled a useful bibliography of Australian 

 geology, and studied fossils sent to him from Queensland by his 

 erstwhile Edinburgh colleague, Mr. B. Logan Jack. This 

 eventually resulted in a large work by the two friends on 'The 

 Geology & Palaeontology of Queensland & New Guinea' (1898). 

 Meanwhile, in 1887, Etheridge returned to Australia as Palaeonto- 

 logist to the Geological Survey of New South Wales and to the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. Here he remained and worked for 

 the remaining 33 years of his life, becoming Director of the 

 Museum in 1895. At the Mines Department he started the well- 



