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BY the death of Mr. Thomas Mellard Reade, F.G.S., geological science has lost an amiable, painstaking, and enthusiastic geological worker. Educated as a civil engineer, he was at one time chief draughtsman in the civil engineering department (northern division) of the London and North-Western Railway. Later on he became engaged in independent engineering and architectural work, and was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In the course of his professional work, the strata exposed in foundations and trenches aroused his interest, and, recognising the practical advantages of a knowledge of geology, he began, when about thirty-five years of age, to pursue the study with great earnestness. The list of his scientific papers and works, numbering about 200, commenced in 1870 and continued until the present year. Residing in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, his attention was in earlier years given especially to the Glacial and post-Glacial deposits of Lancashire and Cheshire, and he was ever an advocate of the glacio-marine origin of much of the Boulder-drift.
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W., H. T. Mellard Reade . Nature 80, 404 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080404a0
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