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Bassein, 4312 feet long. He was appointed Principal of the 

 Poona College of Science, and also Director of the Botanical 

 Survey of Western India. He retired from India in 1893, and 

 was for the next three years Technical Sub-Director of the Imperial 

 Institute. 



Charles Edward Fox-Strangways died on March 5th, 1910, at 

 the age of 66. He was born at Rewe, near Exeter, where his 

 father, the Rev. Henry Fox-Strangways, a grandson of the first 

 Earl of Ilchester, was Rector. He was educated at Eton, and, 

 proceeding afterwards to the University of Gottingen, he studied 

 chiefly the sciences of mineralogy, chemistry, and physics. Here 

 also he saw something of the war of 1866, in the course of which he 

 assisted Sartorius von Walter shausen, the Professor of Mineralogy 

 and Geology, to conceal his" collection of minerals, in order to 

 prevent it from falling into the hands of the belligerents. In the 

 following year he received an appointment as Assistant-Geologist 

 to the Geological Survey, under Murchison. He attained the rank 

 of Geologist in 1879, and was promoted to District-Geologist in 

 1901. He joined the Geological Society in 1873, served on the 

 Council from 1905 to 1908, and was for a couple of years Secretary 

 of the Geological Society Club. 



The bulk of his published work is contained in the Memoirs of 

 the Geological Survey, and he read no papers to this Society. He, 

 however, communicated many papers to the Yorkshire Geological 

 Society, to the Leicestershire Literary & Philosophical Society, 

 and to other local institutions. After some early work near 

 Todmorden and across the Yorkshire Coalfield, he surveyed a 

 considerable area near Harrogate and Knaresborough. Then, 

 settling at Scarborough, he carried his work across the Vale of 

 York, to the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Yorkshire 

 Wolds and Moors. Many of his maps were published on the 

 6-inch scale as well as the ordinary 1-inch scale, and some of 

 his Memoirs have had the unusual distinction of passing into a 

 second edition. His sympathies were by no means confined to the 

 solid rocks, but he was keenly interested in physiographic questions 

 and made many important observations and suggestions on the 

 glacial phenomena of the Vale of York, the Vale of Pickering, and 

 the Yorkshire Moors. He closed his official Yorkshire work with 

 the publication of his contribution to the Memoir on the Jurassic 

 Rocks of Britain, two portly volumes on the Jurassic Bocks of 

 Yorkshire. 



