Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne . terested in Natural History Societies andin Field Clubs and often regretted that the amateur in geologywas being largely displaced by the professional. He did allhe could to foster the study of science for its own sake, andwas always ready to help the least-experienced and humblestworker. One of his last papers—the Presidential Address tothe Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies,British Association, 1916 —was an appreciation of the workof Field Clubs and a plea for co-operation among N
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne . terested in Natural History Societies andin Field Clubs and often regretted that the amateur in geologywas being largely displaced by the professional. He did allhe could to foster the study of science for its own sake, andwas always ready to help the least-experienced and humblestworker. One of his last papers—the Presidential Address tothe Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies,British Association, 1916 —was an appreciation of the workof Field Clubs and a plea for co-operation among NaturalHistory Societies and Field Clubs in the investigation ofcertain geological problems. By the death of Professor Lebour the geological students ofArmstrong College lose one who was a guide, philosopher andfriend, and his colleagues on the staff miss a wise counsellor,who always gave a warm welcome to any of them that con-sulted him, placing his mature judgement and wide knowledgefreely at their disposal. He was a true-hearted gentleman,and a real man of science in the highest The Late Canon Alfred Merle Norman, ,(From a block kindly lent by the Editor of the Vase id urn,) THE LAlK CANON A. M. NORMAN 239 Canon Alfred Merle Norman, , , By Prof. Alkx. Meek, Canon Norman was born in 1831 in Somerset and died onOctober 20th, 1918, at the Red House, Berkhamsted, Herts,but the greater part of his life was spent in the county ofDurham, He came to Durham in the year 1857, and left forBerkhamsted in 1898. It was during the earlier part of thisperiod that he gathered his unique collections, the study ofwhich brought his name into prominence as a leadingauthority on the Invertebrate Marine Fauna of the NorthAtlantic. A son of John Norman, , of Iwood House, Somerset,he was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, was ordained in 1857, and was appointed to a curacy atSedgefield in Durham. From Sedgefield he was transferredto Herring
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