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school lie was an entliusiastio collector ; and wLen only 14 years 

 of age was made Secretary of the Leeds Naturalists' Society. 



In Halifax his scientific studies were more systematized, he 

 attended lectures on Chemistry, and in conjunction with a few 

 friends carried out a course of practical work in Comparative 

 Anatomy. Geological andPalaeontological subjects were, however, 

 those which offered the greatest attraction to his mind, and as 

 a student of fossil fishes he has made a well-deserved reputation — 

 a list of 56 papers and memoirs, which have appeared in various 

 publications, being given in the Geological Magazine for Sept. 

 1893. Among the more important of these may be mentioned 

 his monographs, " On the Fossil Fishes of the Carboniferous 

 Limestone Series of Great Britain " (1883) ; " The Fossil Fishes 

 of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon in Syria" (1887); "On the 

 Fossil Fish-remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary 

 Formations of New Zealand " (1888) ; " On the Fossil Fish of 

 the Cretaceous Formations of Scandinavia " (1890) ; " On the 

 Fossil Fish-remains of the Coal-Measures of the British Islands, 

 Part i. Fleuracantliida; " (1892). He was also the author, ia 

 conjunction with Mr. F. Arnold Lees, of ' West Yorkshire : an 

 account of its Geology, Physical Geography, Climatology and 

 Botany ' (London, 1878). 



In addition to his own work, Davis was an enthusiastic 

 supporter of everything that tended to the advancement of 

 Science in his native county, and it was owing to his exertions, 

 and able administration as Secretary since 1876, that the 

 Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society has attained its 

 present state of prosperity and number of members. A history 

 of the fifty years' existence of the Society was written by him in 

 1889. He was also an active member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, of the Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society, and of 

 many other local Societies. 



He was well known throughout Yorkshire as an energetic 

 advocate of technical education, and was for many years connected 

 with several of the local Mechanics' Institutions and Fine Art 

 Societies. He was elected a Governor of the Yorkshire College 

 at Leeds, and took great interest in all that pertained to its 

 welfare. 



Always a prominent public man, Mr. Davis was elected Mayor 

 of Halifax in November 1890, a compliment repeated by his 

 fellow townsmen in the two following years. 



Mr. Davis was a Fellow of the Antiquarian and Geological 

 Societies, and served on the Council of the latter for two years. 

 He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1875. He died, the 

 victim of over-work, at Grasington in North Yorkshire, on July 

 21st, 1893, at the early age of 47. A true Yorkshireman, an 

 enthusiastic worker, and a firm friend ! 



Aethue Milnes Marshall was born at Birmingham on 

 June 8th, 1852, being the second son of Mr. W. P. Marshall, C.E. 



