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Obituary • — J ohn Leckenby. 
Prof. W. C. William son, in 1847, figured and described some of 
the small fossils from Charing in bis comprehensive and far-seeing 
memoir “ On some of the microscopical objects found in the Levant, 
and other deposits : with remarks on the mode of formation of 
calcareous and siliceous rocks,” Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc., 
vol. viii. See also the supplemental “ Corrections of the Nomen- 
clature of the Objects,” etc., op. cit., third series, vol. v. 1872. Dr. 
Mantel] also noticed the excellent results of Mr. Harris’s labours on 
the “ Chalk-detritus ” and its Animalculites in the sixth edition of his 
“ Won der s of Geology,” 1848, and in his “ Medals of Creation,” 
1S54, etc. 
The Entomostraca from the same source were the incentive, and 
supplied the chief material for the “ Monograph of the Entomostraca 
of the Cretaceous Formation of England,” Palaeontogr. Soc., 1849 ; 
and for its revision in the Geological Magazine, Vol. VII., No. 2, 
Febmary, 1870. Mr. Harris’s collection of similar fossils from the 
Gault of Kent added largely to the completion of that Monograph. 
Of the Foraminifera and other fossils thus collected at and near 
Charing, many increased the lists in the second edition of Prof. 
Morris’s “Catalogue of British Fossils,” 1854, and are duly 
acknowledged in the preface. Some small Brachiopods were worthy 
of Mr. Davidson’s attention and description ; and other rare fossils in 
Mr. Harris’s collection are figured in Dixon’s Geology of Sussex, etc. 
Mr. Harris devoted much of his leisure to mapping the areas of 
the Cretaceous strata about Charing on the One-inch Ordnance Map ; 
and the Geological Surveyors were pleased to avail themselves of his 
work as far as they could. In Company with the writer, in 1854, he 
found the fossiliferous specimens of Tertiary ironstone in sandpipes 
of the Chalk near Lenham, which added so much to our knowledge 
of the “ Kentish Crag,” when studied by Messrs. Prestwich and 
Searles Wood (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 325, and p. 
333). Mr. Harris also worked indefatigably in tracing the extent of 
this fossiliferous ironstone in his immediate neighbourhood ; and he 
had diggings made, at considerable expense, on the hill above 
Charing to the depth of about 30 feet. Mr. Prestwich gives an 
account of these in his paper above referred to. 
Thus, as one of the many quiet workers in rural districts, carefully 
observing nature, and looking with knowledge on antiquities, fossils, 
and all traces of the past, Mr. Harris took pleasure both in 
collecting and in communicating everything of use and interest that 
could be learnt within his field of Observation. T. R. J. 
JOHN LECKENBY, ESQ.; J.P., F.G.S. 
Born 1814. Died 1877. 
It is with no ordinary feelings of regret that we record the loss of 
an excellent Yorkshire geologist, whose death leaves a sad blank in 
our circle of scientific friends. Mr. Leckenby was a native of 
Ripon ; he came to reside at Scarborough upon his appointment to 
the York City and County Bank in 1837, then recently established. 
From that latter date the direction of his mind towards the cultiva- 
