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of the Holmesdale Natural History Society, she lectured to the localsocieties on many subjects, both scientific and social, being an ardentadvocate of women's suffrage.

In 1919, Miss Crosfield had the pleasure of being elected the first womanFellow of the Geological Society.

During her membership of the Palaeontographical Society, 1907-32,she served several times on the Council of that body. She travelled widelyand was, for many years, a regular attender at the meetings of the BritishAssociation for the Advancement of Science both at home and abroad.

In her home town she took great interest in the schools and othereducational bodies, serving on the Reigate Education Committee untilfailing memory caused her to resign. She was always kindly and eager tohelp, but by far the most outstanding of her many characteristics was herwonderful accuracy and industry, as shown in her voluminous, perfectlyand artistically-kept note-books, and her large collection of specimens,all of which are place-marked, thus ensuring them of permanent value.

M.S.J.

LOUIS GUILLAUME, born on 4 January 1894, was killed in a streetaccident at Strasbourg on 29 May 1952. He had been Chef des Travauxin the geological faculty at Strasbourg since 1925, and from 1941 he alsoheld the post of Ingenieur en Chef of the newly-founded Bureau desRecherches Geologiques et Geophysiques, into the organisation of whichhe threw himself with characteristic energy and enthusiasm. As a strati­grapher he was an authority on the Triassic and Jurassic (especially ofthe Normandy coast), and as a palaeontologist he interested himselfmainly in molluscs and brachiopods, but he also wrote and worked on awide range of other topics. Of great personal charm, he had many friendsin England, to which he was a not infrequent visitor, and he joined theGeologists' Association in 1947. A fuller biographical note, together witha list of his published writings, will be found in the Journ. Soc. Bibliogr.Nat. Hist., 1952, 2, pt. 9, pp. 396-9.

W.N.E.

GEOFFREY APPLEBY LONGDEN was born at Blackwell in Derbyshire on7 September 1876. He was educated at the Leys School, Cambridge. From1893 to 1896 he studied mining as a pupil at the Stanton IronworksColliery, spending part of the time at University College, Nottingham.After a further two years at other collieries, he went as Under-manager tothe Pleasley Colliery. In 190o-the year he joined the Association-hesucceeded to the position of Certificated Manager which he held until 1912.when he became the Mining Engineer to the Stanton Collieries. In 1923he passed on to be the Consulting Mining Engineer.

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Longden took a great interest in the geology of the Nottinghamshireand Derbyshire coalfield and, during the years 1915-23, supervised thedrilling of deep boreholes on behalf of the 'Stanton' Company in theOllerton and Bilsthorpe areas. The information thus gained led to thesinking of shafts near these two places. His studies on the borings andshafts enabled him to publish important contributions to our knowledgeof the structure of the north-east Nottinghamshire coalfield.

Longden became President of the Midland Institute of Engineers. Healso served on the Council and as Vice-President of The Institution ofMining Engineers. In addition to his mining and geological interests, hedid much work for the St. John Ambulance and devoted much time tothe physical and spiritual well-being of the work-people of those areas.

H.H.S.

FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH MIGEOD died at his home in Worthing on8 July 1952. For the last year or so he had been a sick man and the quiet­ness and inactivity that this imposed was in marked contrast to most ofhis life in which he was restless and inquiring and full of vitality.

He was born on 9 August 1872, at Chislehurst, but was educated atFolkestone, and, as soon as he was seventeen, he entered the pay departmentof the Royal Navy. His love of the Navy was lasting but the pay depart­ment appears to have been less attractive, for after nine years of it heentered the Colonial Civil Service and proceeded to West Africa.

In his new sphere his official duties were far from filling his life. He madeserious studies in the native languages which resulted in five books; heundertook several hazardous transcontinental journeys and recorded hisobservations in four volumes. Back in England in 1925 he was attractedby the possibilities of the British Museum's East African Expedition thencollecting dinosaur remains in Tanganyika. The leader, W. E. Cutler, hadjust died and Migeod at once volunteered for his place. He was acceptedand for nearly four years struggled with a task that was not so congenialor so easy as he had expected. None the less he was still observing and theinnumerable gleanings of a life-time's wanderings were neatly stored inhis mind. They had to be considered and produced. Despite his Tangan­yika commitments, Migeod was President of the Worthing ArchaeologicalSociety in 1927.

On his real retirement in 1929 he threw his energies into local affairsand into the study of evolution. He wrote books on 'Earliest Man' and'Aspects of Evolution' and a 'Survey of Worthing'. He was elected aTown Councillor and a County Councillor and was eventually an Aldermanof town and county. He was again President of the Worthing Archaeologi­cal Society in 1938.