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essayed to do for England what Prof. Hebert did for France, has 

 formed the basis of nmch excellent work since accomplished by 

 M. Barrois, Mr. Jukes-Browne, and other geologists. With this 

 important question of the classification of the Cbalk strata Mr. Evans's 

 name will ever be honourably associated, giving him as it does an 

 undisputed claim to a niche in our Geological Temple of Eame. 

 Happy to the end in the study of Nature, to which he devoted his 

 last years of physical weakness and decline, he passed away in his 

 home at Hampstead on the 16th September, 1886. 



Erom a remote Devonshire rectory we have received two papers, 

 short but full of promise, from the pen of the Rev. "Wtlliam Dowkes. 

 These papers showed that the Society had secured, by his election in 

 1872, the aid of an able student of the very interesting Cretaceous 

 rocks of the "West of England, and one who had exceptional oppor- 

 tunities for their detailed investigation. We have, alas ! to record 

 his death on the 12th October, 1886, at the age of 48. 



Professor Frederick Guthrie, F.R.S., the eminent physicist, who 

 died on the 21st October, 1886, had been for some years a Fellow of 

 this Society. Some of his researches upon physical questions, 

 especially those bearing upon the continuity between the states of 

 solution and fusion, have an important bearing on geological 

 problems, and these their author clearly saw and forcibly pointed 

 out. Born in London in 1833, Dr. Guthrie was educated at Uni- 

 versity College School and University College, receiving a further 

 chemical training in the Universities of Marburg and Heidelberg. 

 Acting first as demonstrator to Dr. Frankland at Manchester, and then 

 to Sir Lyon Playfair at Edinburgh, he became Professor of Physics 

 at Mauritius ; afterwards, succeeding Dr. Tyndall, he obtained the 

 appointment which he so worthily filled at the time of his death, 

 that of Professor of Physics in the Normal School of Science and 

 Royal School of Mines. His death at the early age of 52, which 

 resulted from a morbid growth in the throat, has deprived science of 

 an enthusiastic and ingenious student, and his colleagues of a much- 

 loved friend and coadjutor. One of these, who knew him well, has 

 aptly compared his whimsical admixture of simplicity and wisdom, 

 of kindliness with pungent but never caustic humour, to the 

 immortal character of Uncle Toby. 



In Mr. Arthur Grote we have lost one of those valuable members 

 who, after long service in our Indian Empire, return with wide 

 knowledge and ripe experience, ready to be placed at the service of 



