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Ordinary Meeting, February 4th, 1873. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
E. W. Binxey, Y.P., F.R.S., said that the Societ} 7- had lost 
one of its most illustrious Honorary Members by the death 
of the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., Woodwardian Professor 
of Geology in the University of Cambridge, a great and 
good man, whose loss it will be hard to replace. All who 
had the pleasure of his acquaintance have to deplore the 
removal of one of the kindest and heartiest of friends, as well 
as one of the most eminent geologists of this century. His 
published papers in the Royal Society’s Catalogue, sole and 
joint, amount to 58. The part of his labours which I have 
been best acquainted with are the memoirs on the Magne- 
sium Limestone and Lower Portions of the New Red Sand- 
stone now known as Permian strata in the North of England. 
For patient research and sound conclusions they are models 
for all future workers in the same field. Never was a more 
generous or willing friend to the humble worker in science. 
Many years since, on the death of that excellent naturalist 
the late Samuel Gibson, of Hebden Bridge, blacksmith, the 
deceased Professor with other friends, lent a ready hand in 
raising a fund for the widow and family. During a long 
illness poor Gibson had been compelled to part with his 
collection of British insects in thirty-four cases to a neigh- 
bour for as many shillings. In order to make as much 
money as possible by a sale of what was left of his things, 
the purchaser of the insects was asked to return them on 
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