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ME. ERNEST NOEL, who died at his home, Dulaney House, Patching, Sussex, on May 20 at the age of ninety-nine years, was the doyen of the Geological Society of London. Elected into the Geological Society in 1849—P. Martin Duncan, who afterwards became a fellow of the Royal Society, was also among the chosen in that year—he had been eighty-two years on its roll, a span probably without parallel in the annals of English scientific bodies. At the date of Noel's election (he was then living at Hornsey), Sir Charles Lyell occupied the presidential chair, and Charles Darwin was a member of council. Such circumstances had provided many interesting reminiscences of contemporaries and original workers in geological and general science. Born on Aug. 18, 1831, Mr. Noel was the second son of the Rev. the Hon. Baptist Noel, who himself was the tenth son of Sir Gerard Noel, and brother of the first Earl of Gainsborough (second creation). Mr. Noel was educated at Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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J., T. Mr. Ernest Noel. Nature 128, 100 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128100a0
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