ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

OBITUARY NOTICES, 1957

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ARCHIBALD DONALD BUTTERLEY died suddenly on the way home from hisoffice on New Year's Day 1957. Born in 1896, the younger son of a collierymanager, he was educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School,Barnsley. He decided to become a mining engineer and received his earlytraining at Wharncliffe, Woodmoor and Sheffield University, specialisingin electrical and mechanical engineering. His career was interrupted bythe war of 1914-18 during which he served in the Royal Navy. On hisreturn he went to Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries in Durham, but in1928 was appointed Assistant General Manager to the Desford Coal Co.Ltd. in Leicestershire, thus beginning a long connection with the Leicester­shire and South Derbyshire Coalfield. The catalogue of his subsequentcareer, first as General Manager and a Director of the Desford Company,later as Sub-Area Manager, then Area Production Manager under theNational Coal Board, his Presidency of the South Midland Branch of theNational Association of Colliery Managers in 1947-49 and of the MidlandCounties Institution of Engineers in 1951-52, and his services as a Justiceof the Peace for Market Bosworth, tells but a small part of his contributionto the life of his district. He was early deeply interested in geology,particularly in its application to mining and was elected a Fellow of theGeological Society in 1927 and a member of the Association in 1938. It wasthis geological bent which made his schemes of exploration, first at Desfordand later throughout the coalfield, so successful. Not least he was everwilling to help others and was never more delighted than when he had anopportunity of demonstrating the many critical sections laid bare duringthe driving of the Merry Lees Drifts, which he caused to be speciallypreserved. Above all he was a charming and sterling person who will bedeeply mourned by a host of miners and geologists who were proud to callhim their friend. G.H.M.

DR. ROBERT CAMPBELL was born at Auchinblae in Kincardineshire on1 January 1881. He received his early education at Fordoun, Kincardine­shire, and at Hutton Hall Academy, Dumfriesshire, and proceeded toEdinburgh University where he graduated M.A. in 1903 and B.Sc. in 1905.He was appointed Assistant to Professor James Geikie and Lecturer inPetrology in the University of Edinburgh in 1904, and for the next forty­seven years served his alma mater with acceptance and distinction. Agifted and successful teacher, Campbell gave generously of his time toadministrative duties in the University, and his wise direction and friendlyguidance is remembered by a long succession of students. Extramuralassociations and societies benefited from his skilled lecturing and tutoring,and, in particular, the geological classes of the local branch of the Workers'

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Educational Association were deeply indebted to him in the early years oftheir existence.

While Dr. Campbell's principal research interests are recorded in manypetrological papers on the Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous igneousrocks of Central Scotland, He was the author of important memoirs on thestratigraphy and structure of the Highland Border Series of Stonehavenand Aberfoyle (the latter with Professor T. J. Jehu) and OR the Old RedSandstone succession of south-eastern Kincardineshire. He made, also,notable contributions to die geology of the Pleistocene deposits of north­east Scotland. In 1928, Campbell summarised many years of painstakingresearch on the composition of the conglomerates of the Downtonian andOld Red Sandstone of the Stonehaven district in a paper read to theBritish Association Meeting in Glasgow. On his retirement in 1951 heresumed study of these rocks with a view to further publication, butunfortunately he did not live to complete this work.

Dr. Campbell attended a number of the longer Field Meetings of theAssociation and always looked back with great pleasure to the NorwegianMeeting of 1934, the year in which he became a member. He was knownearlier to members for the enthusiastic excursions he led to the PentlandHills when the Association visited Edinburgh in 1913and again in 1927; hewas responsible for the account of the Pentland Hills, in 'The Neighbour­hood of Edinburgh', published in the Association's PROCEEDINGS in 1914and 1927.

Dr. Campbell died in Edinburgh on 19 February 1957 after a shortillness. He is mourned by a wide circle of friends who miss his kind andhappy personality. A.M.C.

PROFESSOR LEON W. COLLET died peacefully at his home in Geneva, 13October 1957. He was in his seventy-eighth year, and he had been in failinghealth for some time.

Collet will long be remembered with special gratitude for having openedup to British and American students geological wonders recently recognisedin the Alps. A revolution in the interpretation of Alpine structures wasintroduced in 1893 when Schardt announced the exotic nature of the Pre­Alps that extend either side of the Rhone from Lake Thun to Lake Geneva.This group of mountains is composed of thrust-masses which have travelledso far that their constituent formations, recognised by their fossil content,are of foreign character, or facies, compared with the contemporary, stay­at-home representatives upon which they now lie. Schardt's realisation ofthis equally amazing and picturesque fact not only solved the long-standingpuzzle of localised pre-alpine facies, but also, as he himself clearly recog­nised, pointed the way to a drastic reappraisal of Alpine structure as awhole. At first almost all Swiss geologists derided Schardt's interpretation,