In Iftemoriam. 



GEORGE THOMAS DERRICK. 



Between two and three years ago this Society sustained a 

 severe loss when, as the result of sudden illness, Mr. 

 George Thomas Derrick was compelled to relinquish 

 all active co-operation in the Society's work, to which he had 

 previously contributed much valuable service. And early this 

 year, in spite of many hopes to the contrary, that loss became 

 permanent by the regretted death of Mr. Derrick, on 

 April 10th [1912] in the 73rd year of his age. 



Mr. Derrick was one of the original members of the 

 Society, joining it at the time of its inception [Oct. 10th, 

 1882], and thence forward for about eight and twenty years, 

 until incapacitated by illness, he was a regular attendant at 

 its meetings, and was most energetic in promoting its success # 

 He was its first Vice-President, the late Sir Edgar MacCul- 

 loch (then Mr. MacCulloch) being elected the first President. 



Mr. Derrick also ably filled other positions in connec- 

 tion with the Society as time went on. He was President in 

 1897-1898, and for about ten years (from 1901 to the Spring 

 of 1910, when failing health compelled his retirement) he was 

 Hon. Sec. Although his speciality was Botany, yet he always 

 took a general all-round interest in every branch of the Society's 

 work ; and the Guille-Alles Museum contains several inte- 

 resting finds of his in Natural History and Archseology, which 

 were presented by him to the Collection. He also contributed 

 many valuable papers to the Society's Transactions. 



Mr. Derrick was a native of Bristol, his connection 

 with Guernsey dating from 1860, when he first came to reside 

 in the Island and took up the head-mastership of the "British" 

 Boys' School, a position which he held for more than forty 



