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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 205 School of Science. He went up to Cambridge in October 1887,and in 1889 passed Part I in chemistry, physics, geology and botany. He attended Prof. J. E. Marr's Part II geology lectures. In 1889 he also took the London Intermediate Science Examination and secured a chemistry exhibition, a physics exhibition and a Neil Arnott medal. Continuing at Cambridge he was awarded a First Class in Part II of the Tripos in 1890, with chemistry as the principal subject and physics as 'subsidiary'. Later in the year he obtained a First Class in the London B.SC. degree and was once more awarded a scholarship on merit. He worked for a time at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, interspersed with periods at Cambridge. He took and passed the examination for Ph.D. (Heidelberg) in January 1893 and in June of the same year obtained the degree of D.SC. London. Hewitt was elected to a 'Professorship' of Chemistry at the People's Palace Technical College and started work there in 1894. In 1910 Hewitt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. When East London College became a School of the University, in 1915, Hewitt was made a University Professor. When the College was re-named Queen Mary College, in 1934, Hewitt became one of its first Fellows. After the first world war, during which Hewitt received a commission as 'Major, General List, attached Royal Engineers', he resigned his professorship, went into industrial chemistry, and after 1924carried out consulting work. Although Hewitt's main activities were in the chemical field, he remained interested in geology for many years. He was a member of the Association from 1898 until his death in 1954. A fuller notice appears in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Volume 1, November 1955. F.H.M. HAROLD J. OSBORNE WHITE, who died on 3 June 1954, at Deal, was a member of the Association for sixty-three years, although the present generation saw him but rarely. In the early decades of this century scarcely a year passed without an excursion of which he was the director, and he contributed not a little to the PROCEEDINGS. During the period of his greatest activity he was closely associated with the late Ll. Treacher-for many years they lived only about two miles apart-and their joint work (published by the Geological Society of London) gave an impetus to zonal study of the inland exposures of the Chalk which was comparable with that produced by A. W. Rowe in his studies of the coastal sections. Osborne White's profound knowledge of the Chalk of southern England led to a commission to compile the sheet memoirs for those maps of H.M. Geological Survey which cover the Cretaceous areas. These memoirs, packed with information and lucidly written, are an abiding record of his activities. During the time when these were being produced he was living at Wargrave, whence he later moved to Brading. While there he produced the Short Account of the
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School of Science. He went up to Cambridge in October 1887, and in 1889passed Part I in chemistry, physics, geology and botany. He attended Prof.J. E. Marr's Part II geology lectures. In 1889 he also took the LondonIntermediate Science Examination and secured a chemistry exhibition, aphysics exhibition and a Neil Arnott medal. Continuing at Cambridge hewas awarded a First Class in Part II of the Tripos in 1890, with chemistryas the principal subject and physics as 'subsidiary'. Later in the year heobtained a First Class in the London B.SC. degree and was once moreawarded a scholarship on merit. He worked for a time at the Universitiesof Heidelberg and Berlin, interspersed with periods at Cambridge. He tookand passed the examination for Ph.D. (Heidelberg) in January 1893 and inJune of the same year obtained the degree of D.SC. London.
Hewitt was elected to a 'Professorship' of Chemistry at the People'sPalace Technical College and started work there in 1894.
In 1910 Hewitt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.When East London College became a School of the University, in 1915,
Hewitt was made a University Professor. When the College was re-namedQueen Mary College, in 1934, Hewitt became one of its first Fellows. Afterthe first world war, during which Hewitt received a commission as 'Major,General List, attached Royal Engineers', he resigned his professorship,went into industrial chemistry, and after 1924carried out consulting work.
Although Hewitt's main activities were in the chemical field, he remainedinterested in geology for many years. He was a member of the Associationfrom 1898 until his death in 1954. A fuller notice appears in BiographicalMemoirs ofFellows of the Royal Society, Volume 1, November 1955.
F.H.M.
HAROLD J. OSBORNE WHITE, who died on 3 June 1954, at Deal, was amember of the Association for sixty-three years, although the presentgeneration saw him but rarely. In the early decades of this century scarcelya year passed without an excursion of which he was the director, and hecontributed not a little to the PROCEEDINGS. During the period of his greatestactivity he was closely associated with the late Ll. Treacher-for manyyears they lived only about two milesapart-and their joint work (publishedby the Geological Society of London) gave an impetus to zonal study of theinland exposures of the Chalk which was comparable with that producedby A. W. Rowe in his studies of the coastal sections. Osborne White'sprofound knowledge of the Chalk of southern England led to a commissionto compile the sheet memoirs for those maps of H.M. Geological Surveywhich cover the Cretaceous areas. These memoirs, packed with informationand lucidly written, are an abiding record of his activities. During the timewhen these were being produced he was living at Wargrave, whence helater moved to Brading. While there he produced the Short Account of the
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Geology of the Isle of Wight, which is the largest and best known of hispublications. In addition to his stratigraphical work, he took great interestin problems of geomorphology--especially in the matter of river-development. A few years ago he moved to Deal, in failing health, and survived tobecome a Senior Fellow of the Geological Society of London, though for afew months only. He was of a shy and retiring temperament, and althoughhis urbanity gained him many friendly acquaintances, there were few whocould claim intimate knowledge of him, and of these most have precededhim as subjects of obituary notices. H.L.N.
SIMEON PRIEST died 16 October 1954, at the age of seventy-eight, when theAssociation lost a senior member, known in Staffordshire before 1902,andlater in Kent, as an active local geologist.
Priest was born at Woolaston, a hamlet of Stourbridge, near Kidderminster, in 1876. As a young man he studied science, in addition to trainingfor the teaching profession. His appointments included those of ScienceDemonstrator at Longton High School, Staffordshire, and the SutherlandTechnical Institute. He carried out much field work in Staffordshire andnearby, and his search for fossil arthropods is acknowledged in two Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, i.e. Bolton's Fossil Insects of theBritish Coal Measures (1921-2) and Pocock's Terrestrial CarboniferousArachnida ofGreat Britain (1911). In the latter a new species, Anthramartuspriesti, is named after him.
His wide interests were shown by his familiarity with industries aroundStourbridge, and the hours spent by him at night in glass works and ironfoundries. He was much associated with the North Staffordshire Archaeological and Naturalists' Field Club and the Lancashire and Cheshire FaunaSurvey.
From 1902 to 1907 he lived in Hertfordshire, where he studied the Chalkand Pleistocene gravels. In the latter year he was elected a Fellow of theGeological Society of London, having been proposed by John Ward ofLongton, Wheelton Hind and A. J. Jukes-Browne, and also joined ourAssociation.
In 1907 Priest entered the Kent education service, teaching at schoolsnear Dartford until his retirement, owing to ill-health, in the early 1930's.From 1907 onwards he pursued with avidity his studies in geology,archaeology, and botany, then living at Horn's Cross, near Dartford. Hewas a founder member of the now extinct Dartford Naturalists' FieldClub, reporting in its Transactions on such subjects as Recent myriapoda,including little-known luminous centipedes and millipedes. He also helpedto found the still surviving Dartford District Antiquarian Society.
Priest was long and closely concerned with the Geology Department of
