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on the primeval rocks of the earth's crust, and upon 

 " Comparative Lithology." But it is impossible now 

 even to enumerate his various contributions to knowledge. 

 All have been good, and though it cannot be claimed 

 that Lomas has made any very great discovery, he has 

 done much useful original work, carefully detailed and 

 honestly set down. His reputation as a scientific man 

 has been steadily growing amongst scientific men outside 

 Liverpool, and for several years he has acted with marked 

 success as the chief secretary of Section C (Geology) of 

 the British Association. 



Lomas was fortunate in obtaining grants from 

 scientific funds, on occasions, to aid in his special 

 investigations, and it was on such a journey — to inquire 

 into the desert conditions in the neighbourhood of Biskra, 

 with a view to a comparison with the Triassic rocks upon 

 which Liverpool is built, and towards the expenses of 

 which he had applied for and received a grant from the 

 British Association at Dublin — that his useful life was 

 prematurely cut short last December. As in the case of 

 many another scientific man, his death came directly in 

 the course of his scientific investigations. 



For many years Lomas gave special courses of 

 lectures on Geology and Physical Geography in the 

 University. This volunteer teaching work, although 

 sometimes it must have been heavy enough, was a labour 

 of love, and was hardly, I fear, remunerative. His chief 

 reward must have been the consciousness of the good 

 work he was doing, and the gratitude of his students — 

 several of whom have themselves become geologists. 



Most of those who have worked with him will, 

 however, agree thai Lonias was at his best in " the field" 

 on geological or biological expeditions. lie was pre- 

 eminently an open-air student of nature, and he could 



