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Obituary — Dr. Bryce. 
tion of the natural Sciences commenced ; he quickly formed the 
acquaintance and friendsliip of Dr. Wru. Smith, who at that time re- 
sided at Scarborough, and also of Mr. William Beau and Dr. Lycett. 
For several years he was known only as a diligent collector of the 
varied objects yielded by the coast of that part of Yorkshire, more 
especially of the recent shells, and he never ceased to add to and 
improve his collection of British Mollusca until, at his death, they 
had become, with a single exception (that of Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys), 
the finest collection of British shells known. About the same time 
(1837) the discovery by Mr. Bean of the considerable Oolitic flora 
in the shoi'e-beds of Gristhorpe Bay and the publication of his 
specimens by Lindley and Hutton in their Fossil Flora of Great 
Britain, had an important influence upon the mind of so enthusiastic 
a young man as Mr. Leckenby, and materially aided in directing his 
attention to Geology and Pakeontology. In the pursuit of the latier 
Science it became his espeoial object to acquire the finest possible 
specimens, or, to use his own expression, “he loved to see nature 
with clean face and hands.” His fine museum of fossils was trans- 
ferred during these later years to the Woodwardian Museum at the 
University of Cambridge. He made several contributions to the 
pages of this Magazine, and also to the Quarterly Journal of the 
Geological Society of London, vols. xv. xix. and xx. 
His genial and hospitable disposition won for him a large circle 
of friends both in Scarborough and London. The progress of the 
fatal disease to which he succumbed was rapid, and dates only from 
September, 1876. 
JAMES BRYCE, ESQ., M.A., LL.D., F.G.S. 
Born 1806. Died 1877. 
By a deplorable accident Science bas lost a most able geolo- 
gist through the death of Dr. James Bryce, which occurred in the 
pass of Inverfarigaig, near Foyers, whilst on a geological excursion. 
He had sallied forth alone, hammer in hand, to examine the rocks 
in the pass, and whilst pursuing his researches on the top of the 
cliff he must have inadvertently stepped upon a loose piece of rock, 
which giving way beneath him, he was precipitated to the foot of 
the cliff, where, three hours later, his lifeless body was found by two 
gamekeepers. 
James Bryce, son of the Bev. James Bryce, Presbyterian minister, 
was born at Kalleague, near Coleraine, in the north of Ireland, 
October, 1806. The greater part of his early education he received 
at home ; but he subsequently went to the University of Glasgow, 
where he graduated, having specially distinguished himself in 
Greek, and carried off, among other honours, the Blackstone prize. 
After leaving College, he acted as mathematical master in the Belfast 
Academy, until, in 1846, he was appointed to superintend the 
Mathematical and Geographical Department of the High School, 
Glasgow. There he spent the greater part of his life, diligently 
discharging his daily duiies and earnestly endeavouring to promote 
the teaching of Science in schools when that was not so populär as 
