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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Dalton as "a great petroleum geologist. . . . who was associated
"with the early development of many of the oilfields of the world," and
regards his Bibliography as "the most complete in existence." This
monumental work has now been given to the Institution.
Dalton's association with our Club dates from the latter's very early
days and he contributed many articles and notes on geological subjects
to its Journal. Among the more important of these was an interesting
account of his native Fowlness in 1889, in which year also he collaborated
with his fellow geologist, William Whitaker, in publishing a "List of Works
on the Geology of Essex" to that date. In 1891 he wrote an account of
"The Undulations of the Chalk in Essex," and in 1910 he contributed an
important paper on "Wells on Fowlness Island, Ancient and Modern."
When the Club's Museum at Stratford was being established, Dalton
rendered invaluable service by presenting to it many geological specimens—
rocks, minerals and fossils—from his own collection, which he personally
inscribed in the Museum Register.
He was elected an honorary member of the Club in 1902.
P. T.
EDWIN TULLEY NEWTON. (1840—1930.)
By the death of Mr. Edwin Tulley Newton, which took place in
his 90th year, at his residence, Florence House, Willow Bridge Road,
Canonbury, N., on January 28th, 1930, our Club loses a respected honorary
member of 45 years' standing and a kindly helper.
Born May 4th, 1840, at Charlton Crescent, Islington, the son of Thomas
and Emma Newton, he was descended on his mother's side from Charles
Tulley, F.R.A.S., and William Tulley, F.R.A.S., both of them distinguished
makers of telescopes and other optical scientific instruments. So long ago
as 1865 he was appointed to the staff of the Geological Survey as Assistant
Naturalist, later (in 1882) being promoted Palaeontologist to the Survey
in succession to Etheridge. In this capacity he was responsible for deter-
mining the fossil remains collected in the field by the Officers of the Survey;
as an instance of the extremely difficult nature of the task that sometimes
confronted him, it is on record that, when describing some new reptiles
from the Triassic Sandstones of Elgin, in 1892, "he had not a particle of
"the bones to deal with, the whole having been dissolved away; he had
"before him only the cavities in sandstone from which, after untold labour,
"he obtained casts in gutta-percha of various bones and skulls."
During his forty years' service on the Survey, Newton wrote several
important memoirs. In 1878 appeared his "Chimaeroid Fishes of the
Cretaceous Rocks," and in the same year was published his "Catalogue of
the Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology."
His memoirs on "The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and
"Suffolk" (1882) and "The Vertebrata of the Pliocene Deposits of
Britain" (1891) are classics which added immensely to our knowledge
of these deposits.
Newton was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1873 and the
Society recognised the value of his scientific work by awarding him the
Wollaston Fund in 1884 and the Lyell Medal in 1893. On June 1st,
1893, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; and from 1921 to 1928