other form of evening entertainment as they may think best in consultation with the local Committee; and that Mr. R. C. Tucker be the Secretary.

12. That Mr. J. S. Amery, Sir Alfred W. Croft, and Mr. R. Hansford Worth be a Committee to collect and tabulate trustworthy and comparable observations on the Climate of Devon; and that Mr. R. Hansford Worth be the Secretary.

13. That Sir Roper Lethbridge, Dr. Brushfield, Mr. R. Pearse Chope, Rev. Chancellor Edmonds, B.D., Rev. Sub-Dean Granville, and Mr. E. Windeatt be a Committee for the purpose of investigating and reporting on any Manuscripts, Records, or Ancient Documents existing in, or relating to, Devonshire, with the nature of their contents, their locality, and whether in public or private hands; and that Mr. E. Windeatt be the Secretary.

14. That Mr. J. S. Amery, the Rev. I. K. Anderson, Mr. R. Burnard, Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr. J. D. Pode, and Mr. R. Hansford Worth be a Committee for the purpose of exploring Dartmoor and the Camps in Devon; and that the Rev. S. Baring-Gould be the Secretary.

15. That Mr. Maxwell Adams, Mr. J. S. Amery, Dr. Brushfield, Rev. Professor Chapman, Sir Alfred W. Croft, Rev. O. J. Reichel, Mr. H. G. Hastings Shaddick, Mrs. Rose-Troup, Dr. Arthur B. Prowse, Mr. William Davies, Miss H. Saunders, and Mr. W. A. Francken be a Committee to consider the matter of preparing, according to the best methods, an Index to the First Series (Vols. I-XXX) of the Transactions; that Mr. J. S. Amery be the Secretary; and that this Committee have power to add to their number.

16. That Mr. Maxwell Adams, Mr. J. S. Amery, Rev. G. Goldney Baker, Dr. Brushfield, Rev. Chancellor Edmonds, Mr. T. Cann Hughes, Sir Roper Lethbridge, Rev. O. J. Reichel, Mr. A. J. V. Radford, Mr. Harbottle Reed, Mr. George E. Windeatt, and Rev. J. F. Chanter be a Committee, with power to add to their number, to prepare a detailed account of the Church Plate of the Diocese of Exeter; and that Mr. Harbottle Reed and the Rev. J. F. Chanter be the joint Secretaries.

17. That Miss Rose E. Carr-Smith, Sir Alfred Croft, Mr. W. P. Hiern, Dr. H. Humphreys, Miss C. E. Larter, Mr. C. H. Laycock, Dr. H. G. Peacock, Dr. A. B. Prowse, Mr. C. E. Robinson, Mr. A. Sharland, Miss Helen Saunders, and Mr. T. Wainwright be a Committee, with power to add to their number, for the purpose of investigating matters connected with the Flora and Botany of Devonshire, and that such Committee report from time to time the results of their investigations; and that Mr. W. P. Hiern be the Secretary.

Obituary Notices.

PATRICK FRANCIS BELLEW. Mr. Bellew was the son of the late Major Henry Walter Bellew, H.E.I.C.S., Bengal Army, and early in life an officer in the Indian Medical Service. Retiring from the service, he purchased, about twenty-five years ago, Colley House, Tedburn St. Mary, from Mr. Gregory, J.P., where he resided to the date of his death and greatly developed and improved the property. Mr. Bellew, up to two years since, when his health failed, had taken a prominent part in parochial affairs. He was for twenty years people's churchwarden and charity trustee, and for a long period member and some time Chairman of the old School Board and of the Parish Council. He had also served the office of Guardian and District Councillor, and was at the time of his decease Chairman of the School Managers and member of the School Attendance Sub-Committee. He was a staunch Conservative, and usually presided at meetings of the party. He joined the Association in 1895, and was a regular attendant at its annual meetings, at which he will be much missed. Tedburn St. Mary has lost a good friend by his death, and his many acts of kindness will be long remembered. He died at Colley House on 16 May, 1909, and was interred at Tedburn St. Mary on 20 May, amid many tokens of regret testifying to the esteem in which he was held.

THOMAS BULTEEL. Mr. Bulteel was born at Belle Vue and was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Hillersden Bulteel. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and when twenty years of age entered the Naval Bank, founded by the Harris family in 1774, and two years later was admitted into partnership. Of a retiring disposition, Mr. Bulteel never took a prominent part in public life. He was, however, honorary treasurer of the Port of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, honorary treasurer of the Plymouth

Royal Eye Infirmary, and took a very great interest in Hele's, Jory's, and other charities, subscribing liberally to many. He was keenly interested in the building of the Science, Art, and Technical Schools at Plymouth, and laid one of the foundation stones in 1889.

Mr. Bulteel was a county magistrate for a great number of years, and for twenty years was Chairman of the Plymstock School Board and also of the directors of the Plymouth Improved Dwellings Company, whose object was to supply cheap dwellings for the working classes. For many years he was a director of the Sutton Harbour Commissioners and a member of the Cattewater Commissioners. From the days of his youth he was a follower of the Dartmoor Hounds, and was a close friend of the late Charles Trelawny, for many years the Master of the Hunt. He joined the Association in 1887, and was VicePresident for the meeting held at Plymouth, in 1892.

He married Miss Margaret Cork, daughter of the late Vicar of Bickleigh. There are two surviving sons, Mr. Hillersden Bulteel, surveyor and architect, and Mr. Frederick Thomas Bulteel, junior partner in the Naval Bank, and five daughters.

He died at his residence, Radford House, Plymstock, at the age of seventy-one, on 24 November, 1908.

ROBERT DYMOND. Mr. Dymond was born 19 November, 1833, at Beaford, near Torrington. Early in life he enlisted in the Royal Marines and saw active service in the Crimea. On retiring, in 1877, he settled at Bideford, as an auctioneer, and two years later started a business in posting which rapidly grew. For many years he was Chairman of the local School Board, and of the Education Committee until his death. In 1885 he entered the Bideford Town Council, was elected an Alderman in 1898, and for three years in succession held the office of Mayor, in 1892-3, 1893-4, and 1894-5. He was also a Justice of the Peace, and held nearly every office open to a Bideford man. His second wife (who survives him) was the daughter of our member, the late Rev. J. Ingle-Dredge, Vicar of Buckland Brewer. His only child, Mr. W. A. Dymond, died in 1892. He was a leading member of the Bible Christians in the Bideford district. He joined the Association in 1898, and was a Vice-President for the meeting at Bideford, in 1902. He died at his residence, The Mount,

Bideford, on 19 October, 1908, and was buried on 24 October amid tokens of the greatest respect.

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RICHARD LUSCOMBE ELLIOT. Mr. Elliot was born at Lower Knowle, Kingsbridge, on 18 March, 1839. He received his preliminary education at Kingsbridge Grammar School, and entered on his medical career at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, qualifying in 1863. He was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and a Licentiate in Medicine. then joined his brothers, William and Charles, at Shanghai, who were the owners of a large fleet of clipper tea ships, whose crews he had to superintend. On the advent of steamers he returned to England and became private physician to Lord Harewood in Yorkshire until the year 1877, when his health broke down from some obscure nervous disease, which obliged him to retire from active practice. He joined the Association in 1877, and though physically incapable of taking any active part in its work, he took a keen interest in its proceedings and in the papers read at the annual meetings. He was an experienced gardener, and for some years looked after the gardens at Tresillian. On the break-up of his old home he settled at Paignton, where for many years he was a well-known figure on the sea-front in his Bath chair. He was one of a family of twelve, of whom two brothers and two sisters survive him. He died 31 January,

1908.

SIR JOHN EVANS. The Devonshire Association has lost a distinguished member through the death of Sir John Evans, who joined the Association in 1869, and thus was one of its oldest members. He was born on 17 November, 1823, at Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, and came of a literary and scientific stock, for his father, the Rev. Dr. Arthur Benoni Evans (1781-1854), was the headmaster of the Grammar School at Market Bosworth, and the author of many works, including a book on Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, published in 1848, while his grandfather, Lewis Evans, F.R.S., was the first mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and devoted to astronomical studies. Sir John Evans received his education under his father at the Market Bosworth Grammar School, where he acquired

an intimate knowledge of Latin which stood him in good stead in after life. He was intended for a University career and was entered for matriculation at Brasenose College, Oxford, but this project was abandoned, and he proceeded to Germany instead to acquire a knowledge of the German language. In 1840, at the age of seventeen, he began his commercial career by joining the staff of the paper-making works of Nash Mills, near Hemel Hempstead, of which his uncle, John Dickinson, F.R.S., was the head and founder, and in 1851, at the age of twentyeight, he was admitted into partnership and lived to become the senior member of the firm. He was also for many years President of the Paper Makers' Association.

Besides being a keen and successful man of business, he achieved a distinguished position in the world of science. At the early age of nine years he developed a taste for geology, but his scientific proclivities were not confined to geology alone. In water supply, a question necessitated by the needs of his business, both from the geological and meteorological sides, he became a recognized authority.

In 1847, Boucher de Perthes began to publish the results of his researches in the gravel deposits of the valley of the Somme, around Abbeville, to prove his contention that the human race, together with various tribes of animals long extinct, must have inhabited Western Europe for a long succession of ages, an opinion stoutly contested at that time. John Evans, together with Joseph Prestwich, in 1859, undertook an examination of the geology of the valley of the Somme, with the view of proving the correctness of this opinion. The result was communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by John Evans in a paper entitled, "Flint Implements in the Drift, being an Account of their Discovery on the Continent and in England" (Archæologia, Vol. XXXVIII, 1860, p. 280). These researches, together with those subsequently made in Kent's Cavern, Torquay, and the Brixham Cave, the former under the auspices of the British Association, and the latter under those of the Geological Society, with both of which Evans was intimately associated, clearly proved the now generally accepted view that prehistoric man was living in Britain and in France contemporaneously with the large extinct mammalia, the mammoth, the machairodus, the rhinoceros, hippopotamus,