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lie took a large part in the compilation of the Memoir on the 

 Thicknesses of Strata, published in 1916. This was presumably his 

 latest work. He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1876 ; he 

 became a Member of the Geologists' Association in 1879, and was 

 its President in 1889-1891. He joined the British Association in 

 1882, and in the same year the Essex Field-Club (of which he was 

 President in 1886-1888). A frequent attendant at the meetings 

 •and excursions of the Geologists' Association and of the Essex 

 Field- Club for many years, he helped greatly in their work, and 

 his genial companionship was much valued. The later years of 

 his life were spent in the old house which belonged to his parents, 

 28 Crooms Hill, facing Greenwich Park, and there he died, 

 leaving three sons and three daughters. 



His chief geological contributions, other than the work done for 

 the Geological Survey (which included a Memoir on the country 

 around Carlisle, 1899), are included in the following papers : — 

 three published by our Society ; the first in 1881, on the Carlisle 

 basin, and two, in 1892-1894, dealing with the relation of the 

 River-Gravels of the Lower Thames to the Boulder Clay. His 

 most important contributions to the Geologists' Association were 

 on Cumberland, in 1882 & 1887, and his Presidential Address, on 

 the Geological Record, in 1890-1891. He read many papers to 

 the Essex Field-Club, including two Presidential Addresses, the 

 second of which was on the subterranean geology of the South- 

 East of England. He dealt also with the following subjects : — 

 •Subsidences at Lexden, 1887 ; Drift Maps, 1888 ; the Ancient 

 Physiograplvy of Essex, 1896 ; the new Reservoir at Waltharnstow 

 (two papers), 1901 ; Subsidence at Mucking, 1907. Besides 

 these, there are many other shorter papers in the ' Essex Naturalist ' 

 and a multitude of notes, and papers on subjects not wholly 

 geological, notably the Report on Deneholes, and two papers on 

 Tree-Trunk Water-Pipes, 1903. His active scientific work ended 

 in 1914. [W. W.] 



Howard Fox, of Falmouth, was a member of the well-known 

 and much-respected Fox family. His first cousin, Caroline Fox, 

 daughter of Robert Were Fox, F.R.S., in her book 'Memories of 

 Old Friends ', referring to a luncheon party at Falmouth on 

 April 7th, 1836, gives the following picture of De la Beche, whose 

 work in Cornwall was worthily continued by Howard Fox : — 



' He is a very entertaining person, his manners rather French, his conversation 



