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consolidated into the stratified rocks of the globe. 

 Several of his published papers deal with such collections, 

 and a series of the floor deposits of the Irish Sea, formed 

 and classified under his guidance, is to be found not only 

 in our own University Museum of Zoology, but also in 

 the Museum of the Geological Survey at Termyn Street, 

 London. 



Although in the main a geologist, Lomas often took 

 part in our Biological expeditions, and frequently visited 

 the Port Erin Station. lie wrote a detailed report on 

 the Polyzoa for the first volume of our " Fauna," and 

 occasionally named series of specimens or wrote short 

 notes for these Annual Reports. He was added to the 

 Committee last November, just before he started on his 

 fatal expedition to the Sahara. Most of his papers 

 have, however, been Geological, and have appropriately 

 dealt with the Triassic rocks of Lancashire and Cheshire, 

 and Lomas had for several years recently been the 

 secretary of a " Trias Committee " of the British 

 Association, which has produced annual reports upon the 

 extraordinary reptilian footprints and other remains 

 found in profusion in certain beds exposed periodically 

 by the quarrying operations at Storeton and elsewhere in 

 the district. Lomas kept a watchful eye upon the 

 progress of all such excavations, and it is due to his care 

 and knowledge, and to his happy knack of interesting 

 others in what he was studying, that many of the finest 

 slabs of Cheirotheroid footprints have been saved from 

 the quarrymen and are now preserved in our museums. 

 Others of his papers and reports have dealt with glacial 

 phenomena and with more recent changes in the 

 configuration of the country (such as " The Coasts of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire: their forms and origin"), 

 while some have been of wider scope, such as his addresses 



