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broadened his experience by investigating glacial phenomena in Denmark,Germany, Canada and South Africa. Observations made during histravels abroad enabled him to produce papers on the relation between airtemperature and rate of melting of ice, the composite nature of drumlins,and the Dwyka tills and pavements, among other subjects. His accounts ofthe Mud Buttes of Alberta, the cliffs of Moens Klint and Lonstrup inDenmark and of RUgen in Germany (illustrated by detailed drawings)were of particular importance. Many of these examples of highly disturbeddeposits had hitherto been regarded as due to earth-movements, but hewas convinced that, like the similar occurrences of contorted and shearedmaterial in East Anglia, they revealed the effects of movements in icecharged with dirt bands. So closely did they conform to the patterns whichhe had seen in englacial and subglacial material that he spoke of themas 'Glacial pseudomorphs' and frequently used the expression 'Glacialtectonics' (our PROCEEDINGS, 1926 and 1927). His annotated drawings ofthe longest and best exposed of these sections-the seventeen-mile stretchof cliffs where the Norfolk coast cuts across the Cromer Moraine-provedtoo expensive for reproduction during the lean inter-war years. It issatisfactory to record that he presented them to the Library of theGeological Survey and Museum, where they may be consulted.

He was awarded the Murchison Fund by the Geological Society ofLondon in 1928 and in 1950 he was the recipient of the Association'sFoulerton Award.

In 1897 he married Anne, daughter of the late Archibald Irwin ofTynemouth, who survives him. P.G.H.B.

FREDERICK SMITH, B.A., F.G.S., a former Town Clerk of Coventry, who diedin April 1956, had been a member of the Association since 1926.

Starting as a boy in the service of the Coventry City Council he wasattracted to the legal side and by diligence and hard work qualified as abarrister. Much later in life he decided to become a solicitor and studied topass the necessary examinations. Mr. Smith was an outstanding personalitywhose gifts and qualities were recognised by his promotion to Town Clerk,a position he held for twenty-two years until his retirement in 1946.

During his service with Coventry Council he saw many changes and agreat development in the city he loved so well. He had many difficulties toface and overcome, not the least being the work of restoration followingthe heavy enemy air attack on 14 November 1940.

In appreciation of his outstanding services he was made an HonoraryFreeman in 1946, only the seventh Honorary Freeman that the city hasknown in its long history.

Mr. Smith was very active in the preservation of local records and wrotethe book Coventry---600 Years of Municipal History.

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His tastes were simple. He was a great walker, often setting out byhimself to walk twenty or thirty miles. It was, no doubt, his enjoyment ofthe open air and the beauties of the countryside which attracted him tothe Geologists' Association and he attended many of its Field Meetings. Hewas a Life Member. It was largely due to his help that the Midland Groupwas formed in 1937.

Though somewhat austere and stern in appearance no one had a kinderheart and many of his friends remember gratefully the help and encourage­ment he so often gave them.

Mr. Smith was cremated in Edinburgh, where he had settled on hisretirement, but by his own wish his ashes were scattered on the green atStivichall near Coventry, a hamlet he had been instrumental in preserving.

Mr. Smith leaves a widow and a son, who is farming in Scotland.A.L.L.

SIR ARTHUR E. TRUEMAN died in what we now look upon as merely middleage. Yet in his sixty-one years he had achieved great things and manyhonours which would justifiably cause those who had never met him tothink of him as at least an octogenarian. Most members of the Geologists'Association, which he joined in 1919, already know the factual highlightsof his career and it is, therefore, only necessary to refer to these very brieflyhere.

Trueman was born at Nottingham in April 1894 and was educated atHigh Pavement School and University College, Nottingham. He graduatedin 1914 with first-class honours in geology and then took his M.Sc. twoyears later and his D .Sc. in 1918. He was appointed an Assistant Lecturerat University College, Cardiff, in 1917 and three years later became thehead of the new geology department at University College, Swansea. In1930 he was given the professorship of what had, by this time, grown underhis guidance into the combined department of geology and geography. In1933 he accepted the Chaning Wills Chair in Geology at the University ofBristol and in 1937 he moved from there to Glasgow as Professor ofGeology. In 1946 he was appointed full-time deputy-chairman of theUniversity Grants Committee and became its chairman in 1949. He wascompelled by ill-health to resign from the latter post in 1953. Trueman wasthe recipient of the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society of Londonin 1925, the Bigsby Medal in 1939 and the Wollaston Medal in 1955. Hewas awarded the Gold Medal of the South Wales Institute of Engineersin 1933. In 1942 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society andwas President of the Geological Society from 1945-7 and President ofSection C of the British Association in 1948. He was chairman of theGeological Survey Board for over ten years (1943-54). In 1951 he wascreated K.B.E. He was also an Honorary LL.D. of four universities, viz.