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on the ' Materials of Mountains/ ' Sculpture of Mountains,' and 

 1 Resulting Forms ' (pp. 107-324) might be read with advantage 

 by many geologists. 



Although he contributed no paper to this Society, he referred to 

 the structure of the Alps in the second volume of the Geological 

 Magazine (1865), and in vols, iv to vii (1867-70) contributed a set 

 of papers on banded and brecciated structures, enriched with seven 

 beautiful plates. 



Major-General Alexander de Courcy Scott, R.E., Assoc. Mem. 

 Inst. C.E., was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1890, and died 

 on October 16th, 1899. 



He served at the siege of Sebastopol, and retired from the Army 

 in 1882. He was appointed Water Examiner for the Metropolis in 

 1871. 



Major R. T. W. Lambart Brickenden, who was a Fellow of this 

 Society from 1848 to 1896, contributed several papers on Scottish 

 geology to our Quarterly Journal. 1 He resigned in the last-mentioned 

 year, and died an octogenarian in 1 899. 



I may fairly conclude these obituary notices with a reference to 

 a person never enrolled among our Fellows, prevented from being 

 so, indeed, by sex alone. The niece of Falconer, the wife of Prest- 

 wich, lived little more than long enough to see the production of the 

 labour of her latest years, the Life of her husband. 2 This work of 

 love is one of the most notable of the geological books of last year, 

 and it gives an account of the life and labours of one of our greatest 

 geologists, illustrating the way in which he was led to take up those 

 various lines of research wherein he so highly distinguished himself. 



Grace Anne, Lady Prestwich, died on August 31st, 1899, at the 

 age of 66, to the sorrow of all who knew her. 



1 See General Index to the first Fifty Volumes of the Quarterly Journal, 

 1897, p. 59. 



2 ' Life & Letters of Sir Joseph Prestwich,' by His Wife ; pp. xvi & 444, 

 8vo. London, 1899. 



