Robert Lawrence Reid died on April 16th, 1914, after an illness of seven months, at the age of 50.
During the period from 1882 to 1884 he was engaged in prospecting and mining opals, gold and copper in Queensland, in which colony after an interval of eight years he was prospecting and mining tin in the Herberton and Watsonville districts of Queensland.
From 1894 to 1899 he was occupied in prospecting and mining for gold in Coolgardie and the Western Australian fields. In 1900 he transferred his activities to East Africa, and from 1904 to 1910 he was prospecting and mining in the Belgian Congo. Thence he went to Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, for the Memba Minerals, Ltd., and in 1912 he embarked on a prospecting and surveying expedition in Northern Nigeria for the Nigerian New Territories Syndicate.
Mr. Reid was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1913.
Vol. 23, Trans I.M.M., 1913-14, p.527
