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merits notice. During the years of retirement, while life was 
slowly ebbing away, he spent his days cheerfully, showing to the 
last many of those qualities of head and of heart that gained for 
him success in life and the affection of many friends. He died on 
15th January 1896. 
Obituary Notices of Foreign Honorary Fellows. 
The following five Foreign Honorary Members of our Society 
have died during last Session : — 
Gabriel Auguste Daubree was born at Metz on 25tli June 
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1814. From the Ecole Poly technique he passed into the Corps 
des Mines. He devoted himself chiefly to the experimental side of 
Geology, and expressed his deep obligations to our former Presi- 
dent, Sir James Hall, the founder of that branch of the science, 
whose two papers on the subject, published in our Transactions , 
he highly appreciated. Daubree devoted himself to solving the 
difficult problems of metamorphism by actual experiment. He 
also took especial interest in meteorites, and carried on a series of 
experiments in order to reproduce their characters artificially. Pie 
also published some volumes on the phenomena of underground 
water, and traced the various changes which v r ater is effecting 
within the crust of the earth. He held official posts in the licole 
des Mines and the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle. As a mfernber 
of the Academie des Sciences he accompanied the excursionists 
from that body to Chantilly on the occasion of the centenary of 
the Academy, and was welcomed by the Due d’Aumale as an old 
colleague and personal friend. He presented a copy of his great 
work Etudes Synthetiques de Geologie Experimental^ to the 
Library of this Society. He died at Paris, at the age of 82 years, 
on 29th May 1896. 
August Ivekule was intended by his father to be an architect, 
and for that purpose underwent a preliminary training at Giessen. 
At that town, however, he came under the fascinating spell of 
Liebig, and renounced architecture for Chemistry. He afterwards 
went to Paris, and there studied under Kegnault, Fremy, Wurtz, 
and Gerhardt. After engagements at Reiclienau and at St Bar- 
tholomew’s Hospital, London, he returned to Germany, and started 
a small laboratory at Heidelberg, where he carried out his work on 
