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Tate and J. F. Blake. 

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^ ' On the Occurrence of Glacial Boulders at Yellow Cliff, Crown Point Station, Finke 



Valley, Central Australia" : Rep. Austr. Assoc, 1898 (1899), pp. 109-127. 



JAMES SHIPMAN, F.G.S. 

 Born April 30, 1848. Died November 21, 1901. 



An energetic worker on geology has been lost to science in the 

 death of Mr. James Shipman. In early life he was apprenticed 

 to the printing trade ; he subsequently entered the employment 

 of the late Mr. Edmund Kenals, then proprietor of the Nottingham 

 Daily Express, and at the time of his death Mr. Shipman occupied 

 a post on the sub-editorial staff. About the year 1868 he attended 

 the science classes held by the late Edward Wilson, and in 1870 

 he won the bronze medal of the Science and Art Department for 

 geology. Later on Mr. Shipman became a teacher in the science. 

 He devoted himself with remarkable enthusiasm to the study of 

 all the open geological sections in and around Nottingham, and 

 furnished important aid to Mr. W. T. Aveline when he was revising 

 the geological survey map of the district. He became an active 

 member of the Nottingham Naturalists Society'', contributing to its 

 Transactions papers on the geology of various parts of Nottingham- 

 shire and Derbyshire. The Drift deposits, the New Eed Eocks, and 

 the Coal-measures naturally attracted his chief attention, and so 

 thoroughly sound was his knowledge that his advice was sought 

 in various inquiries of economic importance. As a journalist his 

 time was greatly occupied, and especially at night, so that it was 

 only in leisure hours, often taken from those which should have 

 been devoted to sleep, that he was enabled to give so much time 

 to his favourite subject. In 1887 he published "Holiday Notes of 

 a Geologist," a work which contained many interesting reminiscences. 

 There can, however, be little doubt that by utilizing what he termed 

 his ' free ' days so fully, while labouring also at night, he too severely 

 taxed his strength. He died suddenly at the age of 53.^ 



^ We are indebted for most of the above particulars to an article by Mr. A. 

 Stapleton in the Nottingham Daily Express. 



