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MR. THOMAS VINCENT HOLMES, whose death at the age of eighty-two occurred on January 24, was for long a familiar figure in the ranks of English amateur geologists. From 1868 to 1879 he held a temporary post on the Geological Survey, when he was occupied about Carlisle and was the author of the Survey's memoir on that district; he also took part in the mapping of the Yorkshire coalfield in collaboration with the late Prof. A. H. Green, and later had similar experience in the south-eastern counties. Though Mr. Holmes so soon relinquished his official duties for a more leisured life, he maintained to the end his keen interest in local geological problems. An acute observer, he did much useful work in recording new exposures in the southeast of England, and was one of the active members of the Geologist's Association and Essex Field Club, being president of the latter in 1886–1888. He was a fellow of the Geological Society and of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Mr. T. V. Holmes. Nature 111, 229 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111229b0
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