232 obituary: THOMAS GLOVER. 



experimental turn of mind, which was so prominent a feature 

 in his later life, showed itself very early in his boyhood, from 

 the fact of sowing comfits in a flower pot in the greenhouse, 

 his father having laughingly persuaded him that he had shaken 

 them from a comfit tree when he visited Manchester, so young 

 Glover thought he would grow his own comfits. 



Mr. Glover was a cotton manufacturer until the advent of 

 the power loom, when he gave the business up. He married 

 somewhat early, and lived with his wife 67 years. He had an 

 extensive botanical garden in the neighbourhood of Manches- 

 ter, where he reared many new varieties of ferns and flowering 

 plants. His collection of foreign shells was a large one, 

 including importations from China, Philippine Island, South 

 America, Tasmania, and New Zealand. His British shells 

 were very fine, and collected for the most part by himself His 

 duplicates were very numerous, and with these he was ever 

 ready to help young conchologists or old friends. He made 

 numerous presentations of shells to the Manchester and South- 

 port Museums. He rented a fishery in the West of Ireland for 

 the purpose of experimenting with the Natural History of the 

 Salmon. It was during this time that he brought away many 

 shells from Ireland, both terrestial and marine. He first found 

 in the foraminiferous sand of Dog's Bay, Connemara, the 

 beautiful semi-fossil shells oi Helix 7iemoralis,zxiA his friends were 

 always sure of a bag of this sand when he returned from Ire- 

 land. It was extremely rich in foraminifera, which have been 

 well worked out by Dr. Thos. Alcock. He also paid great 

 attention to the shells of Southport ; and it was from this place 

 that he colonised Manchester with Pahidina contecta. About 

 fifty or sixty years ago he placed 70 living specimens in the water- 

 works reservoir, and some subsequently in the brickfield ponds, 

 near his own house ar Smedley, and it is from these specimens 

 that Manchester has supphed so many fine specimens. He 

 tried to establish a colony of Testacella in his garden at 

 Smedley. When on a visit to his brother at Exeter he collected 



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