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Mr. Harcourt will be chiefly remembered for his acts of 
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princely mnniflcence to the Church of the Diocese with which 
he was officially connected as Registrar of the Province of York, 
and the duties of which he continued to discharge within a 
short time of his death. 
The Venerable Archdeacon Creyke was also a valued Member 
of this Society, and before his retirement from the active duties 
of a Dignitary of the Cathedral Church of York, was one of 
its zealous supporters. The Archdeacon was elected a Member 
of the Society in the year 1831, and has also served on the 
Council. 
Amongst the Honorary Members of the Society, the Council 
note the fact of the death of M. Barrande, of Prague. M. 
Barrande was elected an Honorary Member of the Society in 
the year 1881. He was a Frenchman, but for many years had 
resided at Prague, in Bohemia, and was closely connected as 
one of the chief advisers of the late Comte de Chambord, 
whom he survived only a few months. M. Barrande was by 
profession an engineer, but in the year 1833 he commenced the 
study of Geology, and devoted himself to the elucidation of 
the Silurian System of Bohemia. Shortly after his election he 
presented to the Society copies of several works which he had 
written, and to which the attention of the members of the 
Society was drawn at the monthly meeting in June, 1881, in a 
paper read by your Secretary on the works presented. His 
great work, ‘‘ The Silurian System of Bohemia,” as left at his 
death, consisted of 22 huge quarto volumes, partly of text and 
partly of plates, viz. : 6,000 pages of letterpress, and 1,160 
plates of fossils. Ho devoted his entire income to paying 
the numerous collectors, workmen, and draftsmen in his employ, 
and it is estimated that he expended upwards of £10,000 on 
this great work. He died at Prague on the 5th October last, 
a devoted member of the Roman Church. A friendly critic, 
from whose notice the above facts are chiefly taken, thus writes 
of him :—“ So fitly and nobly ends the life of one who, witholit 
“ ostentation or display, devoted half a century to the task of 
“ working out the Silurian Geology and Palaeontology of his 
“ adopted Country (Bohemia) purely for the love of science, and 
