OUtuary—G. H, Piper, F.G.8. 95 



scholar, and at about eighteen years of age he was duly articled to 

 the late Mr. Thomas Jones, Attorney of Ledbury ; and having served 

 his master and duly passed his examinations in law, he was 

 admitted as a Solicitor in 184:9, and from that time commenced 

 to practise in Ledbury, where he continued in his profession until 

 his death. He was joined in partnership by Mr. C. E. Lilley in 

 1886, and was one of the oldest solicitors in the county. In 

 addition to his private practice he also held appointments as 

 Commissioner to Administer Oaths, Perpetual Commissioner, etc., 

 Deputy-Eegistrar, and in 1865 Eegistrar, of the County Court 

 and High Bailiff of the Court, which offices he held up to the 

 time of his death. 



Mr. Piper took a keen interest in the progress and work of 

 the Horticultural and Natural History Societies of the County of 

 Hereford, and had filled the position of President both of the 

 Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club and the Malvem Naturalists' 

 Field Club. To these Societies he communicated many papers, and 

 with them he did much excellent work in botany, local archseology, 

 and geology, more especially in the latter field of research. 



Mr. Piper's geological work was carried on for years in 

 association with the late Rev. W. S. Symonds, M.A., F.G.S., of 

 Pendock Rectory, Tewkesbury ; Dr. Bull of Hereford ; the Rev, 

 P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S. , and other enthusiastic workers. 



The greatest geological achievement performed by Mr. Piper was 

 the carrying out successfully, after many years of patient explora- 

 tion, the complete examination and recording, foot by foot, of the 

 famous section near the railway tunnel at Ledbury, comprising the 

 series of deposits from the Aymestry Limestone, through the Upper 

 Ludlow rocks ; the Downton Sandstone, with Pterygotus ; the Ledbury 

 shales, consisting of red, grey, purple shales, and grey marl-beds, 

 with Pteraspis, Auchenaspis, Cephalaspis, Onchus, Pterygotus, Lingula 

 cornea, etc. ; followed by Lower Old Red Sandstone, with Pterygotus, 

 Pteraspis, and Cephalaspis, etc. 



In Mr. Symonds' paper " On the Old Red of Herefordshire " 

 he writes of the Passage-Beds at Ledbury : "Having again visited 

 Ludlow, and compared the Passage-beds of that district with those 

 of Ledbury, I am convinced that nowhere perhaps in the world is 

 there such an exhibition of Passage-beds presented to the eye of 

 the geologist as at the Ledbury Tunnel on the Worcester and 

 Hereford Railway." See H. Woodward's "Brit, Foss. Crustacea" 

 [Merostomata) : Pal, Soc, part iii, 1871, p. 99. 



The rich collection of fossils which Mr. Piper formed from the 

 Ledbury Tunnel Section, and fi-om other localities in the neighbour- 

 hood, will, it is believed, shortly find a home in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), Cromwell Road, where so many of his fine 

 Cephalaspidian fishes have already been presented in past years, 

 including the superb group of twelve individuals of Cephalaspis 

 Murchisoni, preserved in one block of Old Red Sandstone — forming 

 Plate x in Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward's Catalogue of Fossil Fishes 

 in the British Museum (Natural History), Part ii, 1891, p, 189 — 



