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3n /ll>emonam, 
CHARLES EDWARD FOX-STRANGWAYS, F.G.S 
(1844-1910). 
The past year has become sadly memorable in the annals 
of the Society by the death of two members of long standings 
whose official work for the Geological Survey was done mainly 
in Yorkshire, and whose share in the geological mapping of the 
county was greater than that of any other members of the sur- 
veying staff. The majority of the Yorkshire maps and memoirs 
of the Survey are a monument to the labours of C. E. Fox- 
Strang ways and J. R. Dakyns. 
C. E. Fox-Strangways was born on February 13th, 1844, at 
Rewe, near Exeter, where his father, the Rev. H. Fox-Strangways 
(a grandson of the first Earl of Ilchester) was Rector. The future 
geologist received his schooling at Eton, and went afterwards 
to the University of Gottingen, where chemistry, mineralogy 
and physics were the subjects to which he devoted especial 
attention. While at Gottingen, he saw something of the turmoil 
of the war of 1866, when Hanover was invaded by the Prussian 
troops, and the events of that year were always an outstanding 
recollection to him. Returning to England, he joined the staff of 
the Geological Survey in 1867 as Assistant-Geologist, proceeding 
to the rank of Geologist in 1879, and of District Geologist in 1901. 
His first field work for the Survey was done on the Carboni- 
ferous rocks of Yorkshire, in the neighbourhood of Todmorden 
and Halifax. Afterwards he worked in the northern part of the 
coalfield near Bradford ; likewise in the Ingleton district. Later, 
he surveyed the eastern side of the great anticline, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Harrogate and Knaresborough ; and from there 
his work was carried across the Vale of York to the Jurassic 
and Cretaceous rocks of the Eastern Moorlands and the Wolds, 
his survey of these rocks eventually extending into northern 
Lincolnshire. He had his home in Scarborough during the period 
of his duties in North and East Yorkshire, and his interest in the 
Eastern Moorland country never waned. 
