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He also attended classes in his favourite subjects of Botany and 

 Geology. 



For many years he followed his father's trade as a shoemaker ; 

 later on he worked in an iron warehouse, where the hours were shorter 

 and enabled him to spend more time in the open air. 



For the ten years previous to his death he worked on a small 

 estate at Northfield, where his natural taste for gardening enabled 

 him to transform a few small fields into a charming landscape garden. 



He was reluctantly compelled by illness to relinquish this work 

 some fourteen months before his death and to move back into the 

 town, and in attempting to do some of the heavy work of the move 

 he overstrained an already weak heart. His strength faded away 

 very gradually, and at the last he only took to his bed for a single 

 day, passing away in his sleep early on January 4th, at the age of 67. 

 He had one brother and two sisters, of whom one sister (who always 

 lived with him) survives. He was unmarried. 



A keen observer and an indefatigable field worker, he knew the 

 Midlands pretty thoroughly as well as many out-of-the-way localities 

 much further afield, as he preferred to collect his specimens himself 

 whenever possible. 



Botany, Geology, Microscopy, and Photography all came in for a 

 share of his leisure, but Conchology always remained his most 

 favoured study, and notes thereon are scattered through the Midland 

 Naturalist, the Journal of Conchology, Science Gossip, and other 

 periodicals, though his natural unobtrusiveness prevented him from 

 being a voluminous writer. 



He will perhaps be best remembered in connection with the dis- 

 covery of '^Physa heterostropha Say living in Britain. 



He was an active member of the Birmingham Microscopists' and. 

 Naturalists' Union up to quite recently, and also belonged for some 

 years to the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society. 



His collections comprised land and freshwater mollusca, British 

 and foreign, and fossil mollusca — chiefly from the Silurian, Liassic, 

 Oolite, Eocene, and Oligocene— the last two groups being gathered 

 during holiday visits to Hants, and the Isle of Wight. The pick of 

 the Eocene and the Oligocene fossils he presented about eighteen 

 months ago to the Birmingham New Museum, and it is hoped that 

 arrangements will now be made to transfer most of his collections — 

 or at least the local part of them — to the Museum. — Editor. 



I /ourn. oj Conch., ix., p. 152. 



