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himself to science, and especially to geology. A paper by him 

 on the distribution of fossils in the North Devon Series was printed 

 in our Journal; but his chief contributions to the geology and 

 mineralogy of his native county are to be found in the Transactions 

 of the Devonshire Association (of which he was a member from 

 the first), and include papers on mineral localities, raised beaches, 

 submerged forests, concentric lamination, mineral oil, the classi- 

 fication of North Devon rocks, and various matters of local geology. 

 He also contributed to the Geological and Mineralogical Magazines, ' 

 and wrote several sketches of the Geology of Devon or part thereof 

 as well as the ' Mineralogists' Directory.' He became, indeed, our 

 chief local authority on North Devon. 



Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 in 1871, and died on November 18th, 1899.. He served on the 

 Council from 1875 to 1880, 1884 to 1888, 1890 to 1893, and from 

 1896 onward. From 1890 to 1892 he was Secretary, and President 

 from 189(5 to 1898. He received the Bigsby Medal in 1883. 



Henry Hicks was born at St. David's in 1837, and educated first 

 at the Cathedral School there and afterwards at Guy's Hospital. He 

 entered upon medical practice at his native place in 1862, and soon 

 began geological work there, being greatly stimulated by that able 

 palaeontologist, Salter. The fruits were a great number of papers on 

 the geology and fossils of the district, read to this Society and pub- 

 lished in its Journal from vol. xxi onward, besides many in other 

 publications. One notable piece of work was the discovery of fossils 

 in the Lower Cambrian rocks and the subdivision of those rocks. 



Nor was this Welsh work confined to the period when he lived at 

 St. David's, being continued after he settled near London in 1871, 

 after which time his field of observation naturally became extended. 

 He carried his researches into the pre-Cambrian rocks, not only in 

 his old district but also in other parts of Wales and in Scotland; 

 he made researches in Bone-caves and carefully recorded sections 

 in the Glacial Drift round his home at Hendon, as well as sections 

 in our London gravel and loam. Moreover he took up Devonian 

 geology, contributing many papers on these and allied subjects to 

 our Journal, to the Geological Magazine, and to the Proceedings of 

 the Geologists' Association. To that Association he gave much help 

 in excursions, and was President thereof from 1883 to 1885. 



In such questions as the pre-Cambrian rocks, the geology of the 

 Scottish Highlands, the classification of the older beds of Devon, 



