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Pterobranch, and again in 1961 when he described the problematicalMiocene fossil Skylonia mirabilis.

He was meticulously accurate and methodical. His friendliness won theesteem of a wide circle of colleagues in similar fields all over the world,and his help and encouragement to those students of Polyzoa andCorals who worked at the Museum played no small part in the valuablework they did.

Many Civil Engineers will remember him for his lectures on Geology atWestminster Technical Institute (now College) from 1930 to 1948.

He served our Association as a member of Council from 1933-7 andfrom 1951-3. He was Vice-President from 1953 to 1957 and Secretary ofthe Weald Research Committee from 1931 to 1934. He received theFoulerton Award in 1940 and was elected an Honorary Member in 1962.

He served two terms on the Council of the Geological Society and wasawarded the Murchison Fund in 1950. Richmond (Surrey) ScientificSociety elected him their President 1950-2. Other services to Geology wereon the Councils of the Palaeontographical Society and the S.E. Union ofScientific Societies. He was President of the Geological Section of thelatter body 1935-7. He served as Secretary of Section J of the 18th Inter­national Geological Congress 1948 and was a member of the BritishAdvisory Committee on the Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology.

Towards the end of his life he had to conserve his strength and give upfield work. Yet he never showed signs of frustration and though often inpain maintained his usual cheerful smile and concern for others.

L. 1. P.

TALBOT HAES WHITEHEAD, born on 24 May 1890,was one of a distinguishedgroup of geologists who graduated at the Royal College of Science in thedecade preceding the 1914-18 war. He had gone there from UniversityCollege School, London, and took his B.SC., A.R.C.S., in 1912 and hisM.SC. in 1922.After taking his first degree he remained at Imperial Collegeas a demonstrator and undertook research work in the Dolwyddelan areaof North Wales. In 1914, however, he took the last examination for entryinto the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Later in the same year, on theoutbreak of war, he enlisted as a private in the Suffolk Regiment. Heserved in Gallipoli, was severely wounded in France in 1917 and in 1918was transferred to the Intelligence Section of the War Office.

He had risen to the rank of Captain and on demobilisation in 1919Whitehead returned to the Geological Survey in which he served for therest of his career. Until 1933 he carried out sterling work in the EnglishMidlands, being chiefly concerned with pre-Cambrian rocks, includingLongmyndian, the igneous intrusions of Croft and Stoney Stanton and theCoal Measures and associated younger and older strata of the South

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Staffordshire and Coalbrookdale coalfields. A particular interest of hiswas glacial geology in all its branches. The results of his work were pub­lished in numerous Geological Survey maps and memoirs. The handbookon the Welsh Borderland, written jointly with R. W. Pocock, is a valuableaccount of this area of diverse geology.

From 1933to 1935 Whitehead was stationed in the Geological Survey'sManchester Office and he worked mainly in the Preston and Runcornareas. In the latter year he was promoted to District Geologist in chargeof the York Office and worked in the Leeds area. On the closure of theYork Office he returned to London in 1938and with the outbreak of warin 1939 it fell to his lot to supervise the team of geologists carrying out adetailed revision of the Jurassic ironstones south of the Humber.

The year 1945saw Whitehead promoted to Assistant Director in chargeof Geological Survey work in Scotland and north-east England. Thoughadministration naturally occupied most of his time he took a greatinterest in mineral resources and the preservation of important geologicalsections. He was also responsible for the organisation of the Scottishexcursions of the International Geological Congress of 1948and he was astaunch supporter of Section C of the British Association, serving asVice-President in 1951. On retirement in 1952 he and Mrs. Whiteheadmoved to Little Stretton in Shropshire .

On first acquaintance Whitehead was inclined to appear taciturn anduncommunicative, but much of this was the result of his shy and thought­ful character. Those who were privileged to know him well will recall adevoted geologist and a man greatly concerned with the problems ofeveryday life, yet withal possessed of a dry humour. His geological workwas recognised by the award of the Murchison Fund of the GeologicalSociety in 1933 and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ofEdinburgh in 1946. Apart from geology his interest was chiefly in musicand gardening. A visit to the Whiteheads' home in Little Stretton was agreat privilege for he loved to demonstrate the intricacies of Shropshiregeology, of which he had an intimate knowledge, and their garden was ajoy to behold. He was a member of the Shropshire Conservation Trust andalso of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club. He was still workingon the Pleistocene deposits of Church Stretton at the time of his death inhis 76th year on 5 Apri11966. He is survived by his wife and son. He joinedthe Association in 1908 and became a life member.

G. If. M.

WALTER FREDERICK WHITTARD, D.SC ., F.R .S., was born in London inOctober 1902. He died after some months of illness on 2 March 1966 inBristol, where he had been Chaning Wills Professor of Geology since 1937.