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By Purchase :— 
Entomologist, 1913 and 1914. 
Libraries, Museums, and Art Galleries Year Book, 1914. Subscribed for by 
the Chester Museum Authority. 
Museums’ Journal, 1913 and 1914. 
Nature, 1913-14. 
Naturalist, 1913-14. 
Palcontographical Society, Vol. LXVII., 1913. 
Ray Society. Parasitic Copepoda, Vol. I.; Bibliography of the Tunicata, 
1912; Vol. II., 1913. Scott. 
Year Book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 
1912, 1913. 
Zoologist, 1913-14. 
The additions included in the above lists are those received 
only during the year commencing May 15th, 1913, and ending 
May 14th, 1914. 
ALFRED NEWSTEAD, F.E.S., 
Curator and Hon. Librarian. 
Since going to press with w portion of this Annual Report, the death of 
Canon Spurling, Chairman of the Section of Literature, has taken place. This 
is another great loss to us, as Canon Spurling rendered valuable services to 
the Society, particularly to the Section of Literature. . 
FREDERICK WILLIAM SPURLING. 
(A Tripute By J. M. G.) 
Since the days of the founder of our Society, a nobler influence has 
never pervaded the general life of Chester than that of the bright, pure, 
saintly spirit that has gone from us. Unchangeable sweetness of temper, 
exquisite courtesy, irresistible enchantment of manner, grave and tender 
_kindliness toward the faults and afflictions of others, a strangely winning 
modesty, mingled in the colleague we have lost with a profound learning, 
a depth, width and accuracy of information, rare even among the most 
prominent of England’s clergymen. To those who had the privilege of 
personal intercourse with him, there seemed always at his command a 
stream of language translucent in clearness, choice in phrase, vivid and 
radiant with reminiscence, with anecdote, with quotation from a treasury 
of discriminative reading, to illuminate the most casual subject of con- 
versation; and the recalling of such delights to the remembrance of 
listeners in the days now past must bring with it a sense of wistful 
fascination that cannot fade. To the general hearer of Canon Spurling in 
the pulpit, in the lecture room, in public assembly elsewhere, there still 
eame the never-failing flow of a rich yet simple vocabulary, the gleams 
of a lightly-borne armour of learning, the prolific yet not obtrusive stores 
of culture and refinement from the consummate classical scholar; or again 
the genial and persuasive eloquence in counsel of the most amiable, and by 
no means the least resourceful, of men of the world. Those who loved and 
revered him, and who watched from near or from far the final struggles 
of this most chivalrous of warriors with sorrow and with death, may think 
—with all the comfort of hope and the assurance of faith in his reward—of 
_ claiming for him a life no less profitably and stainlessly spent than that 
a of Wordsworth’s hero, of him who 
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while the mortal mist is gathering draws 
His breath in confidence of Heaven’s applause: 
This is the happy warrior, this is he 
Whom every man in arms should wish to be.” 
