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IN MEMORIAM : W. LOWER CARTER. 
to the reports of several explorations carried out by the Society. He 
was engaged with Professor Kendall in a study of the Glaciation of 
East Lincolnshire, but this investigation was interrupted by his re- 
moval to Birkenhead, and later, during his work in London, he 
studied the glaciation and evolution of the river system of the course 
oi the Wye in Hereford- shire, and the adjacent area. 
For several years he was closely associated with the geological 
work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He 
acted as Secretary of Section C, and he was secretary of a Committee 
appointed by the British Association, at the instance of Professor 
Kendall, to draw up a list of characteristic fossils. Unfortunately his 
death and the dispersal of his papers rendered all the work done in 
that respect nugatory. 
On March 1st, 1907, the appreciation ot the members of the 
Yorkshire Geological Society for Mr. Carter's services to science, and 
especially in the observation and study of the geological problems of 
Yorkshire, was shewn by the presentation to him of a mahogany 
writing table, a petrological microscope (with a series of 111 rock 
sections), and a set of furs was also presented to Mrs. Carter. 
In 1903, he was appointed Lecturer in Geology to the East London 
College, and later he delivered courses of lectures at other Colleges 
and Institutes in London. His indefatigable attention and skill made 
him not only the teacher, but the personal friend of his students. On 
June 7th, 1918, when lecturing at Queen's College, Harley Street, 
London, he had an apoplectic seizure, from the effects of which he 
never rallied. In a manner he died at his post ! 
As Secretary and Editor of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 
Mr. Carter not only upheld the high position of the Society as a meeting- 
ground for earnest workers and students in practical and theoretical 
science ; but by his tactful organisation and untiring zeal he made the 
Proceedimjs such a publication that valuable contributions of original 
work were readily made in it by men of eminence in Science. It has 
been well said that to them and to Mr. Carter is due the Yorkshire 
Geological Society's proud pre-eminence among the County Geological 
Societies ot the country." Whether at the meetings, or in the field, 
Mr. Carter was ever a brotherly man, a kindly friend, and an uplifter 
in tliought and deed to his fellow members. — G. B. and D. F. 
