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Ernest Westlake was born on November 16th, 1856, elected 

 -a Fellow of our Society in 1879, and died, as the result of a motor 

 accident, in 1922. He was a devoted student and lover of Nature, 

 and although he published little, he contributed largely to Science 

 in other ways. The fossil remains of Man were his especial study, 

 and he leaves behind three unrivalled collections of stone-imple- 

 ments. One of these represents the Chellean industry as preserved 

 •in gravels near Godshill (Hampshire). The others were brought 

 together in an attempt to solve the problem of Tertiary Man. 

 This led in the first place to a journey to Tasmania, where he 

 visited many of the ancient camps and obtained several thousand 

 ^specimens of the handiwork of the extinct Tasmanian race. 

 Equipped with the knowledge thus obtained, he went next to 

 Aurillac and found a residence close to Puy Boudien, where he 

 remained actively digging in the Upper Miocene gravels for nearly 

 a, year. As a result, he amassed a collection of some 4000 chipped 

 flints of undoubted Miocene age, which are now in course of 

 examination by experts on the manufacture of flint-implements. 

 The collection is accompanied by a long paper on the geology of 

 Puy Boudien and its neighbourhood. 



In Ernest Westlake a remarkably original mind was united with 

 -a delightful simplicity of character. As an instance of his public 

 spirit, it may be mentioned that, when the beautiful wood of 

 Sandy Bales on the border of the New Forest was threatened with 

 destruction by the timber-merchant, he rescued it, though not a 

 rich man, at his personal expense, for the perpetual enjoyment of 

 all lovers of Nature. It is in the centre of this secluded spot that 

 lie finds his last resting-place. [W. J. S.] 



Sir William Phipson Beale, Baronet, K.C. (1839-1922) had 

 a strong personality, and was well known in legal and political 

 circles. At the Bar he specialized in patent cases, and he sat in 

 Parliament as Liberal Member for South Ayrshire from 1906 to 

 1918. He was much interested in several branches of science, 

 joining the Geological Society in 1865 and the Chemical Society 

 in 1867 ; and he was President of the Mineralogical Society during 

 1918-21. His mathematical treatise on crystallography, published 

 in 1915, was modestly styled 'An Amateur's Introduction to 

 Crystallography', the designation 'amateur' being intended to 

 apply both to the author and to the reader. He was created a 

 Baronet in 1912, and died on April 13th, 1922, at the age of 

 eighty-two. [L. J. S.] 



