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A MEMOIR OF ROBERT ETHERIDGE, F.R.S. 
that Dr. Hicks had established his contention that the 
apparent succession in North Devon was not the true one.^ 
In 1882 Etheridge contributed Notes on some Fossils 
from the Red Beds of the Lower Devonian, Torquay, South 
Devon, in which he described some species collected by 
the late A. Champernowne ; ^ but, except in discussion at 
the Geological Society’s meetings, and in his manual of 
Stratigraphicad Geology, he did not enter further into the 
Devonian question. 
For his researches especially on Devonian Geology he 
was awarded the Bolitho Medal by the Royal Geological 
Society of Cornwall in 1896. 
In 1881 Etheridge resigned his position on the Geological 
Survey, on being transferred to the post of Assistant 
Keeper in the Geological Department of the British 
Museum (Natural History) at South Kensington. There 
he laboured for ten years, with much advantage to that 
Institution, retiring from the public service at the end of 
1891, when he was seventy-two years of age. While, 
however, he had retired from official work, he never ceased 
to labour in the pursuit of science. 
Throughout his scientific career he had given much 
attention to questions of economic importance, and had 
frequently been consulted by engineers in reference to 
water supply, coal, and other matters. The deep borings 
in the London area had naturally interested him, and. he 
contributed an essay on “ The Position of the Silurian, 
Devonian, and Carboniferous Rocks of the London Area.” 
He then remarked : “ The fact that the Upper Devonian 
rocks were under the heart of London, and the Silurian 
some miles north of that, induces us to believe that we 
must look to the south of London, as pointed out by Mr. 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. liii., 1897, p. 458, etc. 
2 Geol. Mag., Dec. II., vol. ix., p. 154. 
3 Popular Science Review, N.S., vol. iii., July, 1879, p. 279. 
