6 2  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  GEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY.  [May  1893*. 
regarded  as  an  authority  on  the  water  question,  and  contributed 
valuable  information  to  the  Report  of  the  Royal  Commission  on 
Water  Supply  in  1869. 
As  an  old  Member  of  the  Cotteswold  Naturalists’  Field  Club,  he 
contributed  papers  on  the  Hydrology  of  the  Cotteswolds,  on  the 
Geology  of  the  Sapperton  Tunnel,  and  other  subjects.  Less  than  a 
twelvemonth  has  elapsed  since  he  made  an  interesting  communication 
to  that  Club  on  the  Dynamic  Geology  of  Palestine,  in  which  the 
salient  features  of  that  remarkable  region  were  well  described. 
Mr.  Taunton  resided  latterly  at  Stuart  House,  near  Stroud,  where 
he  died  on  the  31st  January,  1893,  aged  73. 
Thomas  Wynne,  M.Inst.C.E.,  was  born  at  Tenbury  on  the  7th 
February,  1807,  and  was  educated  at  Ledbury.  About  the  year 
1830  he  removed  into  Staffordshire,  where  he  turned  his  attention 
to  the  study  of  mine-engineering,  became  managing  partner  in  a 
Colliery  Company,  and  practised  as  a  consulting  engineer.  Mr. 
Wynne  was  appointed  one  of  H.M.  Inspectors  of  Mines  in  1852, 
and  two  years  afterwards  became  a  Fellow  of  this  Society. 
Throughout  life  he  took  an  active  and  intelligent  interest  in  all 
engineering  and  mining  discoveries,  and  there  were  few  subjects 
of  this  nature  with  which  he  was  not  practically  conversant. 
He  resided  at  the  Manor  House,  near  Gnosall  in  Staffordshire, 
where  he  died  on  June  4th,  1891,  in  the  85th  year  of  his  age. 
The  announcement  of  his  death  did  not  reach  this  Society  until 
the  autumn  of  the  following  year. 
John  Strong  Newberry,  Professor  of  Geology  in  Columbia  Uni¬ 
versity,  New  York  City,  was  born  on  the  22nd  of  December,  1822, 
at  Windsor,  Connecticut.  He  graduated  at  Western  Reserve  College 
in  1846,  and  at  the  Cleveland  Medical  School  in  1848,  and  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1851.  In  1855  he 
commenced  his  labours  in  Geology,  the  science  to  which,  in  connexion 
with  its  fellow-science,  Palaeontology,  he  devoted  the  chief  part  of 
his  remaining  years.  He  received  in  that  year  an  appointment  as 
geologist  and  botanist  of  the  expedition  sent  out  by  the  U.S.  Govern¬ 
ment  under  Lieutenant  Williamson  to  explore  the  region  on  the  Pacific 
between  San  Francisco  and  the  Columbia  River ;  and  the  6th  volume 
of  the  Government  Reports  on  a  4  Practical  Route  for  a  Railroad 
to  the  Pacific/  published  in  1857,  contains  the  results  of  his  work. 
In  1857  and  1858  he  was  engaged  in  exploring  the  Colorado 
