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Company. He had volunteered in the early sixties in the cause 

 of Italian liberation, and fought under Garibaldi. He rendered 

 considerable service to the Society, by giving advice and super- 

 vising estimates, when electric light was installed in the Apart- 

 ments at Burlington House in 1896. 



Charles Bird was born in January 1843. He was a graduate 

 of the University of London, and, while Second Master at Bradford 

 Grammar School, studied and wrote on the lied Beds at the base 

 of the Carboniferous Limestone in the North-West of England. 

 In 1881 he published ' A Short Sketch of the Geology of Yorkshire.' 

 About this time he became Head Master of the Mathematical 

 School in Rochester, and, while there, published an ' Elementary 

 Geology' and an 'Advanced Geology.' He also published papers 

 on local geology in the 'Rochester Naturalist,' and assisted in 

 ■conducting excursions of the Geologists' Association. He was 

 President of the Rochester Naturalists' Society for four years, 

 between 1883 and 1889. He joined the Geological Society in 1882, 

 .and remained a Eellow until his death on April 11th, 1910, at 

 the age of 67. 



John Roche Dakyns was born in 1836 in the West Indies. 

 He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 whence he graduated in the Mathematical Tripos. He joined the 

 Geological Survey in 1862, and was promoted to the rank of 

 Geologist in 1868. His chief work was in the Derbyshire and 

 Yorkshire Coalfield, the Plain of York, the Pennine Chain, and 

 the Eden Valley. In 1872 he read a paper to this Society on the 

 Glacial Phenomena of the Yorkshire Uplands. He was transferred 

 to the Scottish branch of the Survey in 1884, and in connexion 

 with his work there he communicated his second paper to the 

 Society, ' On the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill & Meall Breac,' 

 which was written in conjunction with Dr. Teall. His last two 

 years of Survey work were spent in the South Wales Coalfield, 

 and he retired in 1896 to Snowdon View, Beddgelert, where he 

 •occupied his leisure strenuously in mapping the greater part of 

 Snowdon on the 6-inch scale. He died on September 27th, 1910, 

 .at the age of 75. 



Although he never joined this Society, he communicated 

 numerous papers to the ' Geological Magazine ' and to the York- 

 shire Societies, but his publications, even when those contained in 

 maps and memoirs are added, by no means represent the large 



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