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IN MEMORIAM : C. E. FOX-STRANGWAYS, F.G.S. 
Fox-Strangways was elected into our Society in 1878 (the 
present wTiter being among the others elected at the same meeting). 
He had become a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 
1873, and he served on its council during the years 1905-8. He 
was likewise an honorary member of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society. While living in Scarborough, he rendered great services 
to the local museum b}^ re-arranging its classical collection of 
Jurassic fossils. In Leicester, he took an active part in the 
working of the geological section of the Leicester Lit. and Phil. 
Society, and was helpful to its members in many ways. 
Reticent and unassuming in manner, Fox-Strangways pursued 
his life's work with a quiet earnestness and persistence of en- 
deavour that never courted recognition. His experiences of the 
world were wide and varied ; the range of his travels included 
parts of North America, South Africa, Iceland and Spitzbergen, 
as well as many parts of Europe ; but he rarely submitted his 
wide knowledge of men and things, even to his closest acquaint- 
ances. 
His disposition was essentially placid and amiable ; and his 
circle of friends was large, though few could claim intimacy with 
him. His high qualities as a field geologist and his methodical 
accuracy and patience with detail are splendidly exemplified by 
his six -inch maps of the Eastern Moorlands, which are likely to be 
treasured as standards of what may be achieved by detailed 
mapping in an area of regular stratigraphy and bold surf ace - 
relief. 
The sincerity of his interest in Geology is shown by the fact 
that he continued his labours in the science Avith the same steady 
persistence after his retirement from official work. His complete 
bibliography of Yorkshire Geolog}^, prepared with infinite patience 
during the last two or three years of his life, and to which Death 
so swiftly added an irrevocable colophon, has been handed over 
by his executors to our Society in M.S., and wiU be published 
shortly. It will fitly serve as his memorial ; and this, as I know, 
was his wish 
G. W. Lamplugh. 
