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  PKOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  M 
  AT.ACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  was 
  president 
  of 
  a 
  field 
  naturalist's 
  club, 
  and 
  when 
  he 
  removed 
  to 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  he 
  found 
  fresh 
  and 
  wider 
  fields 
  ready 
  to 
  hand, 
  at 
  which 
  

   he 
  worked 
  assiduously, 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  his 
  numerous 
  contributions 
  to 
  

   our 
  own 
  " 
  Proceedings", 
  to 
  the 
  "Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  

   Institute 
  ", 
  and 
  other 
  scientific 
  publications, 
  frequently 
  illustrated 
  

   by 
  his 
  own 
  drawings, 
  which 
  were 
  of 
  surpassing 
  excellence. 
  

  

  In 
  1914 
  Part 
  I 
  of 
  his 
  second 
  great 
  work, 
  the 
  " 
  Ilevision 
  of 
  the 
  

   Tertiary 
  Mollusca, 
  based 
  on 
  type 
  material", 
  was 
  published 
  as 
  

   " 
  Palseontological 
  Bulletin 
  No. 
  2" 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Geological 
  

   Survey. 
  

  

  His 
  final 
  and 
  magnum 
  opus 
  was 
  the 
  compihition 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Manual 
  

   of 
  tbe 
  New 
  Zealand 
  MoUusca 
  ", 
  under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Dominion 
  

   Government. 
  The 
  work 
  was 
  ofiicially 
  begun 
  in 
  1907, 
  and 
  the 
  

   volume 
  of 
  text 
  running 
  to 
  1,120 
  pages 
  appeured 
  in 
  1913, 
  being 
  

   followed 
  in 
  1915 
  by 
  the 
  A.tlas 
  of 
  72 
  quarto 
  plates. 
  

  

  His 
  death 
  on 
  the 
  31st 
  July, 
  1918, 
  after 
  a 
  short 
  illness, 
  creates 
  u 
  

   serious 
  blank, 
  not 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  ranks 
  of 
  Australasian 
  conchologists, 
  

   but 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  malacological 
  world 
  as 
  a 
  whole. 
  

  

  Alfked 
  Merle 
  Norman, 
  1831-1918. 
  

  

  The 
  Kev. 
  Canon 
  Merle 
  Nokman, 
  D.C.L., 
  F.H.S., 
  who 
  was 
  an 
  

   original 
  member 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  was 
  the 
  youngest 
  son 
  of 
  John 
  

   Norman, 
  D.L 
  , 
  of 
  Iwood, 
  Congresbury, 
  and 
  born 
  at 
  Exeter 
  in 
  1831. 
  

   He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  Winchester 
  and 
  Christ 
  Church, 
  Oxford, 
  where 
  

   he 
  took 
  his 
  first 
  degree 
  in 
  1852. 
  He 
  was 
  ordained 
  deacon 
  in 
  1856 
  

   and 
  priest 
  in 
  1857. 
  After 
  holding 
  several 
  curacies, 
  lie 
  was 
  

   presented 
  to 
  the 
  living 
  of 
  Burnmoor, 
  co. 
  Durham, 
  in 
  1866, 
  where 
  he 
  

   spent 
  nearly 
  thirty 
  years, 
  becoming 
  Hector 
  of 
  Houghton-le-Spring 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  county 
  in 
  1895 
  and 
  rural 
  dean. 
  He 
  was 
  obliged 
  by 
  illness 
  

   to 
  retire 
  in 
  1898, 
  and 
  soon 
  after 
  settled 
  at 
  Berkhamsttd, 
  Herts, 
  

   where 
  he 
  died 
  26th 
  October, 
  1918. 
  He 
  had 
  become 
  Hon. 
  Canon 
  of 
  

   Durham 
  Cathedral 
  in 
  1885. 
  

  

  When 
  quite 
  a 
  child 
  Norman 
  became 
  interested 
  in 
  Botany, 
  through 
  

   his 
  brother, 
  the 
  Hon. 
  John 
  Paxton 
  Norman. 
  At 
  Winchester 
  he 
  

   studied 
  Entomology, 
  and 
  at 
  Oxford 
  devoted 
  his 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  

   Mollusca 
  of 
  the 
  county, 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  published 
  an 
  account. 
  

  

  While 
  acting 
  as 
  private 
  tutor 
  in 
  the 
  house 
  of 
  the 
  Dowager 
  

   Countess 
  of 
  Glasgow, 
  at 
  Cumbrae, 
  in 
  1854-5, 
  he 
  first 
  seriously 
  

   took 
  up 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  marine 
  fauna, 
  and 
  from 
  lluit 
  time 
  lie 
  spent 
  

   nearly 
  all 
  his 
  summer 
  vacations 
  in 
  dredging 
  round 
  the 
  Biitisli 
  Isles, 
  

   Norway, 
  and 
  Madeira 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Mediterranean. 
  He 
  thus 
  formed 
  the 
  

   nucleus 
  of 
  his 
  famous 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  marine 
  invertebrates 
  of 
  

   the 
  Arctic 
  circumpolar 
  seas 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  tempeiate 
  No7lh 
  Atlantic, 
  with 
  

   the 
  inland 
  representatives 
  of 
  tlie 
  same 
  classes 
  of 
  animals 
  which 
  

   inhabit 
  the 
  Palaearctic 
  region. 
  The 
  collection 
  was 
  further 
  enriched 
  

   by 
  purchase 
  and 
  gift, 
  and 
  was 
  estimated 
  in 
  1895 
  to 
  consist 
  of 
  about 
  

   10,000 
  species 
  and 
  named 
  varieties. 
  

  

  A 
  catalogue 
  of 
  this 
  magnificent 
  collection 
  under 
  the 
  title 
  il/«<S(??<»» 
  

   Normaniamim 
  was 
  printed 
  in 
  twelve 
  parts 
  for 
  private 
  circulation 
  

  

  