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/// Mcmoriam — Henry Clifton Sorhy. 



before he died he sent notes to two of our scientific 

 journals, and at a recent meeting of the Geological Society of 

 London he had contributed a paper of far-reaching importance 

 which was dealt with at length in our February issue. Until 

 a week before his death he seemeci as energetic as ever, but he 

 then had a seizure, the result of which, unfortunately, was fatal. 



His funeral took place at Sheffield on Friday, the 13th, and 

 practically every important scientific society throughout the 

 country was represented. In addition to the numerous 

 members of local public bodies, (including the Lord Mayor, 

 the Master Cutler, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University),, 

 the following gentlemen attended, as representatives of learned 

 societies : — The Royal Society, Professor H. A. Miers, Professor 

 W. M. Hicks ; the Society of Antiquaries, Mr. E. Kitson Clark, 

 Dr. Walker ; the Geological Society, Professor W. J. Sollas, 

 (President) Professor J. W. Judd, Professor P. F. Kendall, 

 Professor Lapworth ; the Linnean Society, Professor A. Denny ;; 

 the Mineralogical Society, Professor LL A. Miers ; the Phar- 

 maceutical Society of Great Britain, Mr. G. T. W. Newsholme ; 

 the Royal Miscroscopical Society, Mr. T. Skelton Cole, Mr. 

 Joseph Gib^t-n ; Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society,. 

 Mr. G. E. i-olland, Mr. T. P. Lockwood, Mr. Simeon Snell, 

 Mr. Wilham Parkin, Mr. Arnold T. Watson ; Sheffield Micro- 

 scopical Society, Mr. John Austen, Mr. Joseph Gibson ; Sheffield 

 Pharmaceutical and Chemical Society, Mr. J. Gilbert Jackson,. 

 Mr. J. Austen, Mr. J. F. Eardley ; Yorkshire Geological Society, 

 Mr. Cosmo Johns ; Sheffield Naturalists' Club, Mr. C. Brad- 

 shaw ; Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, the Rev. Canon Fowler,. 

 Mr. Denison Roebuck and the Hon. Secretary ; Sheffield Society 

 of Engineers and Metallurgists, Mr. F. K. Knowles ; Leeds 

 Geological Association, Professor Kendall. 



It must be said that the service was a simple and quiet one. 



So recently as 1906 we gave in these pages a full account 

 of Sorby and his work, this being the first of the series dealing 

 with 'Prominent Yorkshire workers."* With it appeared an 

 excellent photograph, and a list of his works up to that time, 

 containing no fewer than 230 references to papers and mono- 

 graphs. Our readers are referred to that article for further 

 particulars relating to Dr. Sorby. Details of the papers 

 which he has written since that list was printed, have already 

 appeared in these pages. — T. S. 



* May 1906, pp., 137-144; June, pp. 194-197; July, 225-230. 



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