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E deeply regret to record the death of Mr. Clement Reid, one 



" * of the most distinguished of our Honorary Members. Mr. 

 Reid manifested in many ways his interest in the Society and, 

 on February 23rd, 191 5, read a most valuable paper before the 

 Geological Section. This paper, entitled " Ancient Rivers of 

 Bournemouth," appeared in full in Vol. vi. of the Proceedings. 

 We are indebted for the following brief notice to the courtesy of 

 a friend of the late eminent geologist : — 



" Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., late District Geologist on H.M. 

 Geographical Survey, died at his home ' One Acre,' Milford-on- 

 Sea, on December 10th, aged 63. 



" From 1 90 1 till he retired in 191 4 he had charge of the 

 geological survey of Cornwall and the district round London, but 

 the greater part of his life was spent in the geological survey of 

 districts of the East and South of England. It was when engaged 

 upon this work that he made especially his own the study of the 

 Tertiary and Pleistocene deposits of these parts. 



" This study led him into special branches of geological 

 science. He devoted, first his leisure and later his time of retire- 

 ment, to the study of the fossil botany of Tertiary, Pleistocene 

 and more recent deposits both in England and parts of the Con- 

 tinent. 



" His wish was to tie on the natural history of the present 

 with that of the past and to show its course of development by 

 a fairly continuous record and so to trace the probable physical 

 and climatic changes through which our country has passed in 

 the more recent geological and in pre-historic times." 



