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He was a man of wide knowledge and muliifarious activities, in 

 politics, religion, freemasonry, literature, and scieiice. But it is as 

 a scientific student that he was most widely known and did his 

 best Avork. 



He was more particularly a palreo-botanist, working on the one 

 hand at the Halifax coal-measure flora with such local workers as 

 Binns, Lomas and others, and on the other with such specialists as 

 W. C. Williamson, Thomas Hick, and Robert Kidston, and the 

 "C'ash Collection" of coal-measure plants, now in the Manchester 

 Museum, is his worthy memorial. 



As a conchologist he was a diligent and active worker, a very 

 early member of the Conchological Society, and President in 1882. 

 His services to the Society were very considerable and much appre- 

 ciated, particularly in the Leeds branch, to whom his most loveable 

 character and disposition endeared him. Possessed of a most 

 eloquent, clear and sympathetic method of speech, he was par 

 excellence the orator of the Society, who could most appropriately 

 voice its appreciation of work done. 



He was a keen collector and well acquainted with the British 

 shells — marine as well as land and freshwater forms — and he took 

 at one time special interest in the Cephalopoda. 



He was — like so many other naturalists of Leeds birth— one of 

 the body of men who, some forty years ago, reorganized the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union, and made it the powerful instrument of 

 research it now is. His life was devoted to science, and he was 

 a most acceptable lecturer on various subjects. At one time his 

 services were given to Halifax as the chairman of its School Board. 

 In the masonic body he became Worshipful Master. in 1890. He 

 was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, editor of the 

 publications of the Yorkshire Geological Society for a long series 

 of years, and also its Hon. Treasurer from 1883 to 1901. 



The various local scientific societies of Halifax had in him a 

 most diligent worker, and as a Superintendent of the Young Men's 

 Class at the South Parade Wesleyan School he rendered great service. 



His papers to Societies and in Journals were numerous, but be- 

 ing mostly geological and palaeo-botanical do not call for recital here. 



Of recent years he was the recipient of a civil pension from the 

 State and of an annuity from the Murdoch Trust. 



His death, in his 71st year, was very sudden, due to hemorrhage 

 from a fall in his own garden on returning from a short walk, and 

 he is much mourned by those who knew him, his delightful com- 

 panionship and cheerful and genial optimism making him popular 

 with all who came under his spell. 



