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first he confined himself to the Geology of Yorkshire, and in 1878 he 

 co-operated with the botanist, Mr. F. A. Lees, ih publishing the well- 

 known volume on " West Yorkshire." He had always felt especially 

 interested in the fish-remains discovered in the Yorkshire Coal- 

 measures, and on making the acquaintance of the late Earl of 

 Enniskillen and Sir Philip Egerton, at the meeting of the British 

 Association at Belfast in 1874, his attention was definitely directed to 

 Fossil Ichthyology. He published many small papers, chiefly relating 

 to the Carboniferous fishes, until 1883, when, at the suggestion of the 

 Earl of Enniskillen, he began to contribute a series of large illustrated 

 memoirs to the Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society. His first 

 memoir dealt with the fossil teeth and spines of the Carboniferous 

 limestone, chiefly based upon the Enniskillen collection. The second 

 memoir related to Professor Lewis's great collection of Cretaceous 

 fishes from Mount Lebanon. Subsequently there were memoirs on 

 the Cretaceo-Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand and on the 

 Cretaceous Fish-remains of Scandinavia ; while only last year the first 

 part of a contemplated series of memoirs on the Coal-measure Fishes 

 of the British Islands appeared in the same form. It is a matter of 

 profound regret that Mr. Davis's untimely death should thus abruptly 

 end the work. 



Mr. Davis, however, was not merely an indefatigable palaeonto- 

 logist — one who has left a permanent impression upon Fossil 

 Ichthyology ; he was also a keen man of business, whose advice was 

 eagerly sought in all manner of scientific undertakings. He had 

 travelled extensively, and was on intimate terms with the leading men 

 of his time in many walks of life. His extensive knowledge of the 

 world, his genial disposition, and his enthusiasm in watching the 

 advancement of every department of learning, gave him a position in 

 British Science that none but his intimate friends could estimate ; 

 and it may truly be said that the demise of so valued a patron and 

 trusted an adviser is a great and almost irreparable loss. 



GEORGE BROOK. 



Born 1857. Died August 12, 1893. 



THE death of Mr. Davis in the prime of life was an unexpected 

 shock, but still sadder is the sudden demise of his intimate friend 

 and felJow-Yorkshireman, Mr. George Brook. While out shooting on 

 tne moors in Northumberland on August 12, Mr. Brook was paralysed 

 by sunstroke and died immediately, though just before apparently 

 in the best of health. Mr. Brook was born at Huddersfield 36 years 

 ago, and entered his father's well-known cotton manufactory in that 

 town. His interest in scientific matters, however, soon estranged him 

 from business, and he trained himself in scientific work until he became 

 an accomplished zoologist. His earliest observations were made in a 



