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lead a party over the country all day, and day after day, 

 impressing upon them in the happiest manner both the 

 minutiae of rocks and fossils and the broad features of 

 stratification and mountain building, or water drainage 

 and the connection between landscape and geological 

 structure. Many of us have recollections that will never 

 fade of such days in Wales, or the Isle of Man, in the 

 Lake Country, on the Yorkshire moors, and even in far 

 South Africa. And beyond the earth-lore and all else 

 that he taught us then and at other times, we shall ever 

 remember the constant good nature and cheerful deter- 

 mination to make the best of everything, the helpful 

 resourcefulness in times of difficulty, and the honest 

 reliability and general sterling, lovable character of the 

 friend we have lost. 



I would again point out that, in view of the loss of 

 so many of their old fellow-workers and supporters in the 

 last year or two, the Committee are most anxious to get 

 some younger men as recruits to fill the places thus left 

 vacant, both as actual workers in the field and also as 

 subscribers to the funds. There are now plenty of 

 students — in fact, during the Easter vacation the 

 Biological Station has, for the last few years, been 

 practically full — and there are plenty of young pro- 

 fessional researchers; but we have very few left of the 

 earnest amateur naturalists who were our main support 

 in the early days twenty years ago. The place left 

 vacant on the Committee by the death of Mr. Lomas has 

 been filled by the election of Dr. Benjamin Moore, 

 Professor of Bio-Chemistry in the University of Liverpool. 

 Professor Moore has for several years taken a keen interest 



