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Neighbourhood of Cambridge' (1881), and 'The Geology of the 

 Country around Lincoln ' (1888). 



Mr. Penning became a Fellow of this Society in 1868, and 

 in 1875 he communicated to it ' Notes on the Physical Geology 

 of East Anglia during the Glacial Period.' He considered that the 

 Glacial Drift was formed during a period of submergence, and that 

 the Chalky Boulder- Clay was deposited in a more open sea than the 

 earlier drifts. On the subsequent upheaval of the land certain 

 'denudation-gravels' were formed, and to these he drew special 

 attention. He also wrote a small text-book upon ' Field-Geology.' 



On leaving the Geological Survey, Mr. Penning spent some time 

 in South Africa, where he regained his health, and was enabled to 

 bring before this Society in 1884 a paper on the ' High-level Coal- 

 fields ' of the Transvaal and bordering what was then the ' Orange 

 Free State.' In the following year he gave us ' A Sketch of the 

 Goldfields of Lydenburg & De Kaap,' and in 1891 'A Contri- 

 bution to the Geology of the Southern Transvaal.' He died on 

 April 20th, 1902. [H. B. W.] 



Philip James Rffford, the only son of the Rev. Philip Ruftord, 

 was born at Great Alne (Warwickshire) in 1852. He was brought 

 up as a civil engineer, but early in his career his health broke down, 

 and he was compelled to abandon his profession. About the year 

 1888 he settled at Hastings. He had already acquired a very 

 considerable knowledge of geology, and set to work to collect fossils 

 from the Wealden strata of the neighbourhood. He obtained 

 eventually a fine collection of Wealden plants, which are now in the 

 Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and 147 specimens of 

 these have been described by Mr. Seward. 



The Museum of the Brassey Institute, Hastings, of the Committee 

 of which Mr. Ruiford was a member, purchased part of the Beckles 

 collection of Wealden and other fossils. He selected, named, and 

 arranged these for the Museum ; and year after year added largely 

 from his own private cabinet to the palseontological section of the 

 Museum, in which until the day of his death, in 1902, he took the 

 greatest interest. His loss will long be deeply felt by the Museum 

 and by all his colleagues. He had been elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society in 1899. [H. W.] 



Alfred Charles Selwyn, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., who was 



elected a Fellow of this Society in 1871, died at Vancouver 

 (British Columbia), on October 19th, 1902. 



