Vol. XV it.] 
[Part I. 
PKOCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Edited by ARTHUR R. DWERRYHOUSE, D.Sc, F.G.S. 
1909. 
3n /nbemoriam, 
THE MARQUIS OF KIPON, K.G,, G.C.S.I., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 
On July 9th, 1909, in the eighty-second year of his age, 
and the fifty-first of his Presidency of our Society, the Marquis 
of Ripon passed away at his Yorkshire home, Studley Royal, 
deeply regretted by a world-wide circle, and by none more truly 
than by the great company of Yorkshiremen with whom he 
had laboured for the years of a long lifetime in divers efforts 
for the welfare of their county. 
Of Lord Ripon's brilhant career in the service of the State 
it is not necessary to say much here. He occupied positions 
of the greatest eminence as the representative of Queen Victoria 
and as a member of several of her Governments, and completed 
his immense services to monarch and country by office in the 
second Parliament of King Edward VII. 
Through this long and eminent career he won the regard 
of all those with whom he was associated as a man of large mind 
and sincere nature, a true lover of liberty, and full of sympathy 
with movements of reform. In disposition he was warm- 
hearted, generous, and kindly, and those who came into closest 
