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Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



he possessed of communicating much of his own enthusiasm for research, 

 and of his special genius for concentration on the essential details of 

 whatever investigation he had in hand, to each of the fellow- workers with 

 whom he successively came in contact. His, moreover, was a charming 

 personality, which endeared him to all his colleagues, many of whom 

 benefited to no small extent from his kindly help and encouragement, 

 always so readily accorded. As regards his official work, it is not too much 

 to say that no man in this country has done more than Sir William Power to 

 advance the cause of scientific hygiene. 



S. M. C. 



CLEMENT REID, 1853-1916. 



Clement Keid was bom on January 6, 1853. His father was a goldsmith, 

 and, as one of a large family, the subject of our memoir was compelled to 

 depend upon his own exertions and at an early age entered a publisher's office, 

 where he remained for six years. The work was distasteful to him, but in 

 later life he acknowledged that he had benefited from the business training. 

 His love for Nature was innate and as was appropriate he, a great-nephew of 

 Michael Earaday, had that love intensified by the juvenile lectures at the 

 Eoyal Institution. He determined to cut himself adrift from a business 

 career and to devote himself to science, and, attracted to Geology, enthusiasti- 

 cally studied with the desire to obtain a post on H.M. Geological Survey. 

 This he gained in 1874 and for nearly 40 years, to the day of his retirement 

 in 1913, he was an officer of that Survey. From the time of his appointment 

 until his death, he sedulously devoted himself to the pursuit of his science, 

 with the success to which his published writings bear eloquent witness. 



His work on the Survey began in the South-west of England, but he was 

 soon transferred to the East Coast, and for many years laboured in Norfolk, 

 North-East Yorkshire, Holderness, and Lincolnshire. He then moved south 

 and mapped districts in the South Downs, Sussex Coast, Hampshire, the Isle 

 of Wight, Dorset and Wiltshire. He was appointed District Geologist in 

 1901 and took charge of the Devon and Cornwall area, and afterwards, until 

 .the date of his retirement from the Survey, of the district around London. 

 In 1908 he was sent to Cyprus on an Official Mission in order to advise the 

 Colonial Office on the question of water supply. 



Eeid was elected a Eellow of the Geological Society in 1875, of the 

 Linnean Society in 1888, and of the Eoyal Society in 1899. He was awarded 

 the Murchison Eund of the first-named Society in 1886, and its Bigsby Medal 



