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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  GEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY. 
[May  1893. 
education  he  went  to  the  University  of  Edinburgh  for  two  sessions, 
and  there  made  the  acquaintance  of  Mr.  Alexander  Adie,  by  whom 
he  was  engaged  in  1838  as  his  assistant  on  the  Bolton  and  Preston 
Kailway.  This  engagement  seems  to  have  fixed  his  career  in  life, 
and  subsequently  he  had  an  important  share  in  the  construction 
of  many  railways  both  in  this  country  and  abroad.  He  became 
a  Eellow  of  this  Society  in  1862.  In  May  1886  he  received  the 
honour  of  Knighthood  in  connexion  with  the  Mersey  Tunnel 
Kailwav.  He  was  a  Past-President  of  the  Institution  of  Civil 
Engineers  and  a  Eellow  of  the  Koyal  Society  of  Edinburgh. 
He  died  at  Wimbledon  on  the  2nd  June,  1892,  at  the  age  of  76. 
Lewis  Llewellyn  Dillwyn  was  born  at  Swansea  in  1814,  being 
the  second  son  of  Mr.  Lewis  Weston  Dillwyn,  of  Sketty  Hall,  a 
well-known  botanist  and  student  of  Natural  History.  The  Dillwyn 
family  originated  in  the  county  of  Hereford,  but  migrated  with 
William  Penn  in  1699  ;  and  thus  it  happened  that  the  grandfather 
of  our  deceased  Eellow  was  born  in  Pennsylvania.  The  Dillwyns 
were  first  associated  with  Swansea  in  connexion  with  the  Cambrian 
Pottery  Works.  Mr.  L.  L.  Dillwyn  married  in  1838  the  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Henry  de  la  Beche.  He  was  a  magistrate  and 
deputy-lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Glamorgan,  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Commandant  of  the  Glamorganshire  Kifle  Volunteers.  Although 
a  Eellow  of  this  Society  and  also  of  the  Linnean,  his  energies  seem 
to  have  been  mainly  directed  to  politics.  He  was  elected  member 
for  Swansea  in  1855  and  continued  to  represent  that  borough  in 
each  successive  Parliament  until  his  death,  which  occurred  very 
suddenly  on  June  19th,  1892,  during  the  excitement  of  the  last 
general  election,  when  he  was  in  the  79th  year  of  his  age. 
Alexander  Korean  Tate  was  born  in  1837,  at  Wells  in  Somerset, 
and  educated  at  the  Chapter  Grammar  School  of  that  city.  He 
early  evinced  a  taste  for  chemistry,  and  having  entered  the  laboratory 
of  the  late  Dr.  Muspratt  at  Liverpool,  he  ultimately  became  one  of 
the  principal  consulting  chemists  in  that  neighbourhood,  being 
especially  recognized  as  a  leading  authority  on  petroleum. 
His  public  educational  work  commenced  soon  after  he  settled  in 
Liverpool,  and  both  by  teaching  and  lecturing  he  did  much  to 
popularize  science.  Besides  having  initiated,  in  conjunction  with 
Mr.  James  Samuelson,  the  Liverpool  Science  and  Art  Classes,  he 
established  the  Liverpool  Science  and  Art  Teachers’  Association  and 
