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the starting place being Stamford Bridge and the final landing 
place Kirkham Abbey. The expedition was greatly enjoyed. 
The Museum Dark Room, which contains an efficient 
enlarging apparatus, has recently been refitted and rendered 
much more comfortable for working in. All members of the 
Section are free to use it on application, if need be, to Mr. 
Malcolm Spence or to the Museum Attendant. It is very 
much to be desired that a considerable accession to the 
number of members may take place during the coming year. 
Obituary. —In Mr. Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., whose death 
has left so conspicuous a vacancy in the Geologicial world, we 
lose not only a Geologist of first-rate powers, but one whose 
work is largely connected with this County. Born at Ross in 
1819, Mr. Etheridge began his scientific career as Curator of 
the Museum of the Bristol Philosophical Society. In 1857, he 
was appointed Assistant Palaeontologist to the Geological 
Survey, and in addition to survey work undertook the demon¬ 
strations in Palaeontology at the Royal School of Mines, under 
Professor Huxley. Shortly after, he was called upon to 
investigate the nature and position of the Devonian Formation, 
a matter which the criticisms of Jukes had raised into a burn¬ 
ing question. He set the discussion at rest by an exhaustive 
and masterly work on the subject in 1867, and then turned his 
attention to Yorkshire geology, examining the coast from the 
Tees to the Humber with great care. The results of this work 
are summed up in his edition (3rd) of Phillips’ “ Geology of 
Yorkshire,” published 1875. In 1881, Mr. Etheridge was 
transferred from the Geological Survey to the British Museum, 
where he remained till his retirement doing excellent work on 
the Stratigraphical section of the Geological Department. 
Although an indefatigable worker and a voracious reader, Mr. 
Etheridge was in no sense a book-worm. He was genial and 
pleasant in his manners, and took keen interest in passing 
events. 
Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel’s work has no direct con¬ 
nection with Yorkshire, his election to the honorary member- 
ship of this society was a recognition of the great service he 
had rendered to the science of Palaeontology. Yon Z ittel was 
