lxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL sociery. | May 1902, 
relating to Australia is a lengthy one, and this has lately been 
published. He was the chief founder of the Royal Society of 
South Australia, and he was chosen President of the Australasian 
Association for the Advancement of Science in 1893. 
He died on September 20th, 1901. [H. B. Wy 
Although he had resigned his Fellowship a few years ago, it will 
not be inappropriate to refer to the death of Samuz, Rowtss 
Pattison, who joined the Society in 1839, and would have been 
one of our oldest Fellows, for he was born in 1809. In early years, 
when resident at Launceston, he worked at the geology of parts 
of Cornwall, communicating a number of papers to the journals of 
local societies. Both De la Beche and John Phillips, during their 
investigations on the rocks and fossils of the West of England, 
received help from Mr. Pattison, whose collection from the Upper 
Devonian Limestone of South Petherwin aroused much interest.. 
In De la Beche’s Report (p. 107) there is a sketch of a road-section 
near Launceston, made, in 1837, by him ‘in company with 
Mr. Pattison, of Launceston, and Mr. Holl’—Dr. Harvey B. Holl. 
To our Quarterly Journal (vol. x) Mr. Pattison contributed a 
paper on an auriferous quartz-rock at Davidstowe, in Northern 
Cornwall. 
Throughout his long life he was a quiet and unostentatious 
worker at geology, although his time was greatly occupied in his 
profession as a solicitor. He served on our Council, and his legal 
knowledge was for many years of great service to us. He also 
took much interest in the Geologists’ Association, of which body he 
was for a short time Treasurer. 
In 1849 he published a little book entitled ‘ Chapters on Fossil 
Botany,’ and he issued other works, some being pamphlets, on 
geology in its relation to Biblical records. 
He died on November 27th, 1901, at the advanced age of ninety- 
two. [H. B. W.] 
1 See obituary notice by the Rev. J. F. Blake (Geol. Mag. 1902, p. 87). To 
this article and to the ‘South Australian Advertiser’ of Sept. 21st, 1901, we 
are indebted for many of the above particulars. 
