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as a collector possessing great knowledge of his subject, entitles 

 liim to notice in the obituary list of our Eellows. He left by will 

 the whole of his superb collection of minerals to the museum in 

 Jermyn Street for the use of all students. It is now, therefore, 

 the property of the nation. Science, through the early death of 

 Mr. Ludlam, has lost an earnest student, while his personal friends 

 have to lament the loss of a warm-hearted and true English 

 gentleman. 



Egbert Clutterbuck, E.G-.S., was the eldest son of Eobert 

 Clutterbuck, the historian of Hertfordshire. Mr. Clutterbuck was 

 educated at Harrow, being head boy of that School in 1817. He 

 entered as a commoner at Exeter College, Oxford, where, previous 

 to taking his degree, he gained University honours. He then 

 entered as a law student under the tuition of the late Sir William 

 Hayter. Mr. Clutterbuck spent some time on the continent, gain- 

 ing an unusual proficiency in the Italian and Erench languages. 

 During his residence at Watford he acted as a magistrate, and was 

 instrumental in raising funds for the restoration of the abbey 

 or cathedral of St. Alban's. As an author Mr. Clutterbuck 

 was well known through his works on the monsoons &c, and on 

 the rotatory action of storms ; he also published accounts of 

 his journeys over the great desert from Aleppo to Bassora, and 

 the passage by Suez through Egypt to determine the possibility of 

 an overland communication with India. Mr. Clutterbuck never 

 contributed to the ' Journal of the Greological Society ; ' but he 

 wrote a paper on the Coprolite beds at Hinsworth, which was 

 Dublished in the ' Transactions of the Watford Natural History 

 Society/ vol. i. 1878. He died September 15th, ]879. 



Dr. Edward Meryon, E.E.C.P., E.Gr.S., &c, was many years 

 Eellow of the Greological Society, and some time member of the 

 Council, taking much interest in the working of the Society. He 

 never contributed any paper to the Journal. He, however, was the 

 author of several important works bearing upon his profession, among 

 which may be mentioned especially ' The History of Medicine,' ' The 

 Physical and Intellectual Constitution ol Man,' ' The Eunctions of 

 the Sympathetic System,' and 'Practical and Pathological Researches 

 on the various Eorms of Paralysis. Dr. Meryon was an accom- 

 plished and practical physician of great professional experience. 

 He was an accomplished scholar and true-hearted gentleman. Dr. 

 Meryon died November 8, 1880. 



In Elijah Walton, who died at his house near Bromsgrove on 

 August 25, 1880, in his forty-eighth year, the Society has lost an 

 artist who has been equalled by few, perhaps surpassed by none, 

 in his power of rendering faithfully the forms of mountains and 

 the structure of rocks. His studies of clouds and of the camel 

 prove the versatility of his genius and the fidelity of his execution ; 

 but it is in his pictures of the mountains of Sinai, Norway, and 



