IN MEMOEIAM : THE MARQUIS OF RIPOX. 
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inviting Lord Ripon (tlien Viscount Goderich, M.P.) to accept 
the vacant position was given unanimoush^ and at the following 
meeting, held at Bradford on December 8th, 1858, he was in- 
stalled as President, and for fiftj^-one years he maintained an 
unbroken interest in the Society over which lie was thus called 
to preside. 
On the occasion of his golden wedding in 1901 the Society 
presented Lord Ripon with an illuminated address signed b}' 
the officers and members of the Council. Tlie last meeting 
at which his lordship was present was at Harrogate, on October 
30th, 1902. 
At tlie Aimual Meeting of the Society at Doncaster, on 
November 12th, 1908, the following congratulatory^ telegram 
was forwarded to Studley Royal : — " The Yorkshire Geological 
Society, in Annual Meeting at Doncaster, congratulate youv 
Lordship upon your fifty 3'ears' presidency^ and gratefulh' 
acknowledge your services to the Society. You are elected 
for the fifty-first y-ear." 
The news of Lord Ripon's death was deepty regretted hy 
the officers and Council, and they were represented at the funeral 
by Messrs. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., and J. P. Simpson, 
J.P. So passed from our fellowship one whose love of truth 
and devotion to duty during a long life of varied public services 
have left a record of fidelity to ideals and an unswerving self- 
devotedness which will long be an insj^iralion to all who had 
the privilege of knowing him. 
W. L. C. 
