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Prof. Raupu Tarr, who was born in 1840 at Alnwick in North- 
umberland, was a nephew of George Tate, so well known in con- 
nection with the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club. After studying 
at the Cheltenham Training College and the Royal School of 
Mines, he received an appointment as teacher of natural science 
at the Philosophical Institution, Belfast. Here he devoted himself 
with great assiduity to a study of the natural history of the neigh- 
bourhood, and assisted in founding the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club. 
His researches on the Lias and on the Cretaceous rocks of Antrim 
were communicated to our own Society, and published in the 
Quarterly Journal. In 1864 he was appointed Museum Assistant 
to the Society (of which he had become a Fellow in 1861), and during 
three years worked chiefly at the Secondary fossils in our collections. 
One result of this was an important paper on the Secondary fossils 
from South Airica preserved in the Society’s Museum. 
In 1867 and 1868 he was occupied in exploring parts ot 
Nicaragua and Venezuela for a mining company, and some of his 
observations were communicated to this Society. He was sub- 
sequently engaged in teaching, in the Trade & Mining School at 
Bristol. He now renewed his work on the Lias, and gave the 
results to this Society in a paper ‘On the Paleontology of the 
Junction-Beds of the Lower & Middle Lias in Gloucestershire’ 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvi (1870). 
In 1871 he became a teacher in the Mining School at Darlington, 
and afterwards at Redcar. Here he devoted his leisure-time to an 
exhaustive study of the Yorkshire Lias, and ultimately, in con- 
junction with the Rev. J. F. Blake, the well-known work on. this 
subject was published. Meanwhile several geological papers had 
been written by Tate, notably those on the Lias about Radstock, 
and on the paleontology of Skye & Raasay, both of which added 
largely to our knowledge. 
He had also prepared for Weale’s Series a Rudimentary Treatise 
on Geology in two parts, the first of which was based on Portlock’s 
excellent little work. He published, moreover, a vaiuable supple- 
ment to 8. P. Woodward’s ‘ Manual of the Mollusca.’ 
In 1875 Tate was appointed Elder Professor of Natural Science 
in the University of Adelaide (South Australia). This post he 
occupied until the close of his life. His time was now given 
mainly to a study of the Tertiary and recent fauna and fiora of 
the colony, his observations extending into the Northern Territory 
during an expedition in 1882. ‘The list of his scientific papers 
