A~Nl:AL REPORT OF THE COl:"CIL. III

REV. WILLIAM MILBURX BRIGGS, who died at LeamingtonSpa in February, 1939, at the age of 88, took a deep interest ingeology from his early days. During his long service in theMethodist ministry in many parts of England he availed himselfof the opportunity of studying the local geology of numerousdistricts, collected rocks and fossils and in the early days ofmicroscopic petrology prepared his own rock-slices. He was amember of the Association for over fifty years, having joined itin 1886, and often attended the field meetings. He was of aquiet and retiring disposition and well known in the Ministryas a scholarly and cultured man. He left a widow and two sons.

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Professor JOHN WESLEY CARR, M.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., wasborn at Wetherby in Yorkshire on January zoth, 1862. Hestudied at Cambridge, where, as a scholar of Emmanuel College,he took a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, and for a timewas an assistant in the Woodwardian Museum.

In 1886 he became curator of the Natural History Museumat Nottingham and remained in that position until 1931. Herehe gathered together and arranged, among other things, acollection of rocks, fossils and minerals which for many yearsranked high for provincial museums. This museum was at thattime closely associated with the University College, and it wasalmost inevitable that, upon the retirement of Professor]. F.Blake in 1893, Carr should be appointed to the headship of theDepartment of Natural Sciences. When in 1912 the Departmentwas divided he continued as Professor of Biology until he retiredin 1927. He joined the Association in 1892, and in May, 1913,he conducted, [ointly with Professor Swinnerton, an excursionto the Nottingham district.

Throughout his career Professor Carr's interests were pre­dominantly biological. He was a highly gifted field naturalistand consequently his written contributions to science weremainly records of his field observations.

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DR. FRANK COR:-iER, M.R.C.S., L.R.c.P., was born at Poplaron June 13th, 1861. Of Yorkshire stock, he was the eldest sonof Dr. F. M. Corner, who was greatly honoured in the districtfor his devotion to the sick during the last outbreak of cholera.Educated at Epsom College and the London Hospital our latemember held several hospital posts and he then practised in hisnative district, where he was greatly respected. During thelast war he served on various medical boards, and whilst on dutyat Liverpool Street Station was severely wounded in an air-