50 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

ARTHUR WILLIAM CLAYDEN, M.A., F.G.S., F.C.S., who joinedthe Association in 1899, and was a Life Member, was born in1855 at Boston, Lines. Educated at University College School andChrists' College, Cambridge, where he took the Natural ScienceTripos in 1816, he was appointed Science Master at Bath Collegein 1878, University Extension Lecturer in 1887, and later Hon.Sec. of the British Association Committee on MeteorologicalPhotography. In 1894 he became the first Principal of UniversityCollege, Exeter, where he also occupied the chairs of Physics andGeology until 1922.

His publications included "Cloud Studies,"-a classic workcarried by the R 34 on its journey across the Atlantic, " The Historyof Devonshire Scenery" and numerous papers on meteorology,photography, astronomy, physics and geology. In 1899 he con­structed a working model of Ocean Currents (now in the Universityof Cambridge) which was used in an advisory capacity in theconstruction of the Panama Canal. In addition he did muchwork on Black Electric Sparks and a Beamless searchlight.

His hobbies were really side-lines of his academic work, e.g.,cloud altitudes, but he was also a painter of no mean distinctionand a gardener who combined science with artistic appreciation.

[H.D.]

EWART DAVIES, Ph.D., B.Sc., died on 21st October, 1942, at theage of 38. He was educated at Tredegar County School andCardiff University, studying under Prof. A. H. Cox, and graduatingin 1929. Subsequently he entered Trinity College. Cambridge,where he worked under Dr. G. M. Elles, taking his Ph.D. in 1932.Later, he was appointed Science Master at Tredegar SecondarySchool. While conducting a school party, working on a farm,he contracted typhoid fever, which proved fatal.

[1.M.D.]

ERNEST HENRY DAVISON, B.Sc., F.G.S., M.I.Q., died at Derbyon 9th August, 1944, as the result of an accident. He was educatedat Cheltenham Grammar School and graduated at London Univer­sity in 1902 with Honours in Geology.

He was sometime Science Master at Sandbach GrammarSchool, Chester, and was appointed to the Staff of Cam borneSchool of Mines in 1909, where he was Head of the Geology Dept.until his retirement in 1940. He was an enthusiastic teacher anddeveloped the geology and mineralogy courses to a high standard.He instituted a holiday course in Economic and Field Geology,attended by many students and teachers from all parts of Britain.He also lectured at several English universities, and before theBritish Association; his W.E.A. and popular lectures broughtthe interest of his subject before the public.

For over 20 years, Mr. Davison was most actively associatedwith the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He received theBolitho Gold Medal in 1920: was its President in 1933-4 and for