Dr. Alfred Harker was born at Hull, in Yorkshire, on February 19, 1859; his name may thus be appropriately added, as an “eminent geologist”, to the county which claims amongst its sons the name of Sedgwick, the Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge (1818–73), the first who taught modern geology; and famous as having had such historians as William Smith (the “Father of English Geology”) and his nephew, Professor John Phillips; also as the birthplace of Sorby, Williamson, Strickland, Hudleston, and many others.