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BENJAMIN HILTON BABKETT, who died on June 9 after a short illness, at the age of fifty years, had for many years been a lecturer in geology at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated as a student of the late Prof. J. W. Gregory. His main interests were in stratigraphy, but he had made extensive contributions to the petrology of the red rocks of the west of Scotland, particularly of Arran and Dumfriesshire. He collaborated with Gregory in writing a book on general stratigraphy. His most important work, however, was probably that on the small coalfield of Canonbie, on the borders of Dumfriesshire and Cumberland. In collaboration with Dr. J. E. Richey he published, as a 'war-time pamphlet' of the Geological Survey, an account of this coalfield which greatly modified the interpretation of its sequence and structure, and indicated the possibilities of considerable developments in its concealed areas. For some time he was secretary of Section C of the British Association. He had also been an active supporter of the Glasgow Geological Society, of which he was president.
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TRUEMAN, A. Mr. B. H. Barrett. Nature 159, 868 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159868b0
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