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Geology of Palestine and of the neighbouring countries (1869), 

 followed, three years later, by a shorter paper on the Palee ontology 

 of the same region. 



His work was presented in a more elaborate form in 1877 in the 

 large quarto volume entitled ' Geological Exploration of the Dead 

 Sea, Palestine, and Idumsea,' with two geological maps, three plates 

 of sections, and eight of fossils and stone-implements. By these 

 works he is chiefly known. 



Waltee Joseph Baker, who was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1886 and died on July 29th, 1899, was a prominent member of 

 the well-known firm of Baker & Sons, well-sinkers of long standing. 

 He took considerable interest in geological matters, and was always 

 ready to contribute to our knowledge from the stores of information 

 acquired by his firm. I have had to thank him often for valuable 

 records, and in him I lose a friend. 



"William Young Campbell was elected a Fellow in 1890, and died 

 on April 21st, 1899. He was well known among Anglo- Africans, in 

 connexion with gold-mining, and as head of the South African Trust 

 & Finance Company. 



Prof. Samuel Cooke, M.A., Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., was elected a 

 Fellow in 1877, and died on February 26th, 1899. 



He was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Geology in the 

 Poona Engineering College (India) in 1868, becoming Principal of 

 the College of Science in the same city in 1893, having acted in that 

 capacity on several previous occasions. In 1897 he published a work 

 entitled ' The Foundations of Scientific Agriculture/ in which his 

 geological knowledge was deftly applied. 



Sir J. "William Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., was elected a Fellow in 

 1851, and died on November 19th, 1899. He was Lyell Medallist 

 in 1881. 



Born in 1820, at Pictou (Nova Scotia), he was educated there 

 and at the University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of 

 Master of Arts in 1842. He then accompanied Sir Charles Lyell 

 in the latter's journey through Nova Scotia, on the geology of which 

 he worked persistently, collecting his results in the work on 'Acadian 

 Geology,' which has passed into a third edition. 



He contributed to our Society a long series of papers on the 

 geology and ralxontology of Nova Scotia, Canada, etc., which are 



