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Lowestoft’ (1890). He had also prepared, in conjunction with 
Mr. W. Whitaker, a Memoir on the Water-Supply of Berkshire, 
which has lately been published, and had made some progress 
with a Memoir on the Geology of Reading. 
Mr. Blake’s other contributions to geological literature were iy 
In 1872 he contributed (with H. B. Woodward) ‘ Notes on the 
Relations of the Rhetic Beds to the Lower Lias & Keuper 
Formations in Somersetshire ’ (Geol. Mag. p. 196), and in 1877 he 
published an article ‘On the Age of the Mammalian Rootlet-Bed 
at Kessingland’ (ibid. p. 298). Reference may also be made to 
his addresses to the Norwich Geological Society (of which he was 
elected President in 1880-81); and to his Presidential Address to 
the Reading Literary & Philosophical Society in 1885. Mr. Blake 
was an active member of the Geologists’ Association, and since 
1885 had conducted a number of their excursions." 
Prof. Epwarp WALLER CLayPoLe was born at Ross (Herefordshire), 
on June Ist, 1835, and graduated in the University of London, 
becoming B.A. in 1862 and D.Sc. in 1888. He left England in 
1871, and spent the remainder of his life in the United States of 
North America. He was Professor in Antioch College (Ohio) from 
1878 to 1881; in Buchtel College, Akron (Ohio), from 1883 to 1898 ; 
and from that date until his death on August 17th, 1901, in the 
Throop Institute, Pasadena (California). He was also Palzontologist 
to the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Prof. Claypole 
paid frequent yisits to his native country, and he became a Fellow 
of the Geological Society in 1879. He was well known to many 
of our Fellows and contributed three papers to the Quarterly 
Journal. His first contribution in 1883 contained a description of 
a new Fenestellid ; but the two later papers related to the Upper 
Silurian Pteraspidian Fishes, of which he was the first discoverer in 
North America. He was especially interested in Paleozoic Fishes and 
wrote a series of papers on the Clark Collection, from the Upper 
Devonian (Cleveland Shale) of Ohio, in several volumes of the 
+ American Geologist.’ He also published many purely geological 
papers. He was one of the original members of the American 
Geological Society at its inauguration in 1888, and was an editor 
of the ‘ American Geologist’ from its foundation in the same year. 
He was much esteemed, by all who had the pleasure of his 
acquaintance, as a quiet, unassuming student of very wide interests, 
1 From a memoir by H. B. Woodward, Geol. Mag. 1901, p. 238. 
