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Australia, where he had been with the British Association, 

 a Council was held on the 15th October, and, on evidence laid 

 before it, unanimously dismissed Kappel from the Librarianship. 

 (He died on the 24th December, 1915, at Barges Hoad, Bast 

 Ham,) 



From the 1st September, 1914, therefore, Riseley was in charge 

 of the library, althougii not definitely appointed until 21st January, 

 1915. He began energetically to improve the arrangement of 

 the books, checked them with the catalogue, and set up card- 

 catalogues for accessions, although he was unable fully to carry 

 out his plans for overtaking the arrears which the previous 

 Librarian had suffered to accumulate. He rapidly gained a know- 

 ledge of the botanical volumes in our possession, which, added to 

 his attainments gained at the Zoological Society, made him an 

 admirable officer of the vSociety. He enlisted in the 9th Battalion 

 of the liifle Brigade and, after training, was drafted to France, 

 where he met his death by a shell on the 1st August, 1917. The 

 regard in which he was held is testified by the memorial tablet of 

 beaten copper fixed in the Library, with an inscription, of which 

 the following is the draft : — 



IN MEMORIAM 



EDWINI EPHRAIMI RISELEY 



nati a. d. XV Kal. Mart. A. D. 1889 : 



huius bibliothecse 



per annos 1914-1917 custodis: 



quo tempore 



omnium consensu officio studiose 



diligenterque perfecto Sociis se commendavit : 



vitam summa spe prseditam inter arma 



, pro patria profudit 



anno aitatis suae vicesimo nono 

 Kal. Au^. A. D. 1917. 



The following may be offered as a rough translation : — 



In memory of Edwin Ephraim Eiseley, born on the 15th 

 February, 1889, in charge of this library from 1914 to 1917, 

 during which period, by universal consent, he cTideared himself to 

 the Fellows by the energetic and able discharge of his duties ; 

 he laid ilown for his country a life of high promise on the 

 1st August, 1917, in the 29th year of his age. 



The portrait accompanying this notice was taken soon after 

 enlistment in 1916; we have to thank Messrs. AVakefields, of 

 Chisvvick, for giving permission for its insertion. 



