obituary notice

lO6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

Association in 1924 and in 1926 he contributed a paper on" Superficial Deposits in the Valley of the Great Ouse betweenWillington and Wybaston." At the Conversaziones in 1926and 1927 respectively he exhibited Erratics from the CromerDrift and a collection of flint implements. Several articlesby Mr. Mantle appear in the Geological Magazine, and he con­tributed to the Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural HistorySociety. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of London,and a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and ofthe Birmingham Philosophical Society. Amongst his otheractivities, he was interested in Local Government and servedon several councils and boards in Staffordshire.

WALTER HENNESY MEADOWS, who died in February, 1937, atthe age of 73, joined the Association in 1919. For 45 yearshe was a master at the London Orphan School, retiring atthe end of 1932. Born in Huntingdonshire, most of his lifewas spent at Watford, where he was prominent in local affairs.He was a valued member of the Hertfordshire Natural HistorySociety and served as Hon. Treasurer for many years. At thetime of his death he was President of the Society. Geologyand botany were his principal interests, and he was at all timeswilling to go out of his way to help the beginner. He waskeenly interested in the geology of West Hertfordshire, andon several occasions he acted as a director of the field meetingsof the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. Here he wasdefinitely brilliant, and he had the rare gift of being able toexplain to a lay audience in simple words exactly what werethe points at issue. He leaves a widow, but no children.

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WILLIAM WRIGHT, Professor, M.B., B.Ch., D.Sc., F.R.C.S.,F.S.A., who died on zrst October, was a keen student of manysubjects, and devoted some of his leisure to the summer excursionsof the Association. He was best known as Dean of the MedicalSchool of London Hospital, and as Professor of Anatomy, butreached a wider circle with the report to the Society of Anti­quaries on the bones, taken from the Tower of London and buriedin Westminster Abbey, which he identified as the remains ofthe unfortunate princes whose death was laid at the door ofRichard III. He was devoted to languages ancient and modern,and undertook long journeys to settle vexed questions in history,but few suspected his facility with the pen till he published in thehospital magazine an account of a flying trip to India to examinenative students in anatomy. He joined the Association in 1908,and having reached the age of 63, was looking forward to a longperiod of retirement in which he could indulge more freely inhis favourite pursuits. [R. A. S.]