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Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



untimely death of Prof. J. Beete-Ju'kes. While in Dublin he not only served 

 as Director of the Geological Survey, but also fulfilled the duties of Professor 

 of Geology in the Eoyal College of Science, an appointment which had been 

 held by Oldham and by Beete-Jukes. The post of Director of the Irish 

 Sui-vey was not without its difficulties, and it stands to Hull's credit that he 

 carried on the labours of his predecessors with such success that by the time 

 of his retirement, in 1891, not only were all the sheets of the 1-inch 

 Geological Map of Ireland published, but each sheet was accompanied by a 

 descriptive memoir. One wishes the same could be said of England and 

 Scotland. Either as sole or part author, Hull's name appears on the title- 

 pages of nine of these memoirs, chiefly relating to the northern part of the 

 island. 



In 1871 the first Eoyal Commission issued their ' Eeport on the Coal 

 Supply of Great Britain and Ireland,' to which Prof. Hull contributed much 

 valuable information, and, owing to the death of Prof. J. Beete-Jukes, who 

 was one of the Commissioners, he prepared, or edited, the final report on 

 Ireland. Thirty years later a second Eoyal Coal Commission was appointed, 

 on which Hull served as a member, devoting five years to this important 

 subject, 1901-5. In Eebruary, 1890, the Council of the Geological Society 

 awarded the Murchison Medal to him, and in the following year he retired 

 from the Survey, having been in office under four successive Directors 

 General : de la Beche, Murchison, Eamsay, and Geikie, names which will 

 ever be associated with the history of geological science. 



But his activity did not cease with his retirement from official work. 

 Eirst as Secretary and later as President of the Victoria Institute, he con- 

 tributed many papers to their publications. He also contributed to the 

 ' Geographical Journal ' and to the ' Geological Magazine,' and published, 

 independently, a large atlas and memoirs dealing with the ' Sub-oceanic 

 Physiography of the Xorth Atlantic Ocean,' a subject in which he became 

 much interested during the later years of his life. The complete list of his 

 pubhshed memoirs, books, and paper's contains more than 250 entries, many 

 of which relate to other subjects than pure geology. 



In 1883, on the recommendation of General Sir Charles Wilson, HuU was 

 appointed as leader of an expedition, despatched by the Committee of the 

 Palestine Exploration Fund, for the purpose of carrying out a topographical 

 and geological survey of portions of Arabia Petraea and Palestine. To the 

 late Lord Kitchener (then Captain), with the assistance of a staff from 

 England and Egy^ot, was entrusted the topographical work. The expedition 

 travelled from Cairo through the Peninsula of Sinai to the Dead Sea by the 

 Arabah valley, crossing Southern Palestine to Gaza and visiting Jerusalem. 

 In his report he calls attention to the great fracture in the earth's crust 

 extending northwards from the Gulf of Akaba to the Dead Sea and along the 

 valley of the Jordan. The narrative of this most successful expedition was 

 published in 1884 by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund in a 

 work entitled ' Mount Seir, Sinai, and Western Palestine.' 



