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Bureau loses an able and. highly-esteemed member of its staff. 

 After spending three years with an engineering firm at Swansea, he 

 became a student at Owen's College, Manchester, and later at the 

 Royal School of Mines. On leaving London he travelled widely in 

 many parts of the Empire and in foreign countries. His paper on- 

 ' Grold-Quartz Reduction ' gained for him the Telford Premium 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers. While in New Zealand, 

 during the period 1896-1902, he was a member of the Council 

 and one of the Honorary Secretaries of the New Zealand Institute 

 of Mining Engineers. During the war Mr. Curtis gave much 

 time to the preparation of reports dealing with the mineral re- 

 sources of the Empire and foreign countries : he joined the staff 

 of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, and took a prominent 

 part in the compilation of the statistical and descriptive reports 

 issued by that Bureau. He will be remembered by his colleagues 

 as an untiring and conscientious worker, and his death leaves a 

 gap which it will be difficult to fill. He had been a Fellow of our 

 Society since 1891. [F. H. H] 



Leslie Alfred Edward Swinney died from blackwater fever 

 on September 13th, 1921, in the jungle 30 miles from Alor Star, 

 Kedah (Malay States). After obtaining a first-class diploma at 

 the Imperial College of Science & Technology, he worked as a 

 mining engineer in Canada, Norway, "West Africa, the Transvaal, 

 Chile, Sumatra, and India. Enlisting as a private on the outbreak 

 of the War, he reached the rank of major in the Roj^al Engineers. 

 One who knew him writes : ' a miner of vast experience and 

 exceptional ability ; he was a true and faithful friend of sterling 

 worth'. Mr. Swinney was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 1908. 



William Henry Booth, whose death occurred on November 

 12th, 1921, had been elected a Fellow of our Society in 1909. 

 He was an engineer by profession, and for a short time edited 

 ' The Mechanical World.' He travelled extensively abroad in his 

 professional capacity, and was led to take a keen interest in geo- 

 logical problems. In later years he was chiefly engaged in water- 

 supply work in this country. [J. P.] 



P. Charteris A. Stewart, whose death by drowning while 

 bathing at Balandra Bay (Trinidad) was reported in January, 



