Obituary notices of fellows deceased

With the death of Dr. John Horne on May 30, 1928, one of the most distinguished and certainly the most beloved of Scottish geologists of the last generation, has passed to Ins rest. Horne had reached the ripe age of 80 years, having been born in the Stirlingshire village of Campsie on the first day of January, 1848. He was educated at the High school of Glasgow and subsequently attended classes at the University. He did not graduate, and it was not infrequently the case that students at that time did not go up for a degree. Both Archibald Geikie and James Geikie studied at Edinburgh University but neither of them sat for degree examinations. Probably the reason was partly that boys of strong individual bent took a variety of classes that were outside the ordinary curriculum. Already at the age of 19 Horne bad developed an interest in geological work and was accepted as a recruit for the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1867. Appointment in those days was largely a matter of recommendation and personal selection, and the appointment in this case was amply justified. The Scottish Survey staff at that time included in its members, Archibald Geikie, dames Geikie, and Benjamin Peach, and they were at work mostly in Fifeshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries-shire. Horne spent a considerable time on the Silurian rocks of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright, a series which was then little understood, but which he was to revise at a subsequent date in a piece of work that was one of the greatest achievements of his scientific career.