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IN MEMORIAM I JOSEPH LOMAS. 
as purely geological researches, and at the time of his death he 
was travelling in Algeria in the prosecution of systematic in- 
vestigations into the geological phenomena of deserts, especially 
in relation to the Triassic rocks which had been selected by 
Mr. Lomas as the main object of his scientific studies. The re- 
searches upon which he was engaged were being prosecuted 
with the aid of a grant from the British Association, and it 
adds an additional pang to the sorrow we feel that his career 
should have been thus brought to an untimely close just when 
the prospects of distinguished achievement seemed brightest 
and most hopeful. 
P. F. Kendall. 
