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Museum, that he was formerly an expert student of Coleoptera, 

 both British and exotic, and studied them in company witli the late 

 Mr. J- Aspinall Turner, M.P., both their collections excelling par- 

 ticularly in the beautiful order of Cetoniidie, or Rose Beetles. 



In politics he was a sincere and advanced Liberal, and at one time 

 frequently appeared upon the platform at election-time, though he 

 did not often speak. A few years ago, in 1899, he received the 

 unusual honour of the Freedom of the City of Manchester, in recog- 

 nition of his many eminent services in the cause of progress and 

 betterment ; and when, as a passive resister, certain of his goods 

 were distrained upon, he handed over the casket containing the 

 Freedom, which was, as he said, the thing he valued most in the world! 



By his will he especially directed that no public notice of the time 

 or place of his funeral should be issued ; that, as he had found the 

 world so delightful, he was anxious that, after cremation, his ashes 

 should be scattered and dispersed over some wood or sylvan glade, so as 

 to add to its fertility. On ^Vednesday, Nov. nth, the last rites were 

 performed, and on this occasion the Rev. C. T. Poynting delivered 

 a striking address in which he said that "No man more fully and 

 "surely loved his neighbour as himself, but it was ever a sanctified 

 " self that he sought to share. It was never the ready alms, the easy 

 "gift, the present of that which he would never miss that he sought 

 " to bestow. The gift without the giver was bare, and so he ever 

 "gave himself." 



The following is a list of some oi the chief papers contributed by 

 Mr. R. 1). Darbishire upon MoUusca, to the Proceedings or Memoirs 

 of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and to this 

 Journal : — 



"On ALarine Shells in stratified drift at high levels on Moel 

 Tryfeen, Caernarvonshire." — [Abstract] (1863) Proc, III., 177. 

 " Notes on Marine Shells found in stratified drift near Maccles- 

 field."— (1864), Mem. {3)111., 56. 

 " Notes on some Superficial Deposits at Great Orme's Head, and 

 as to the period of its elevation.'' — (1867), Mem. (j) IV., 1. 



" On Deposits from the raised sea-bottom at Uddevalla, Sweden." 



—(i860), Proc, II, 21. 

 "On supposed PJiolas Burrows in the limestone hills near Buxton." 



—(1867), Proc, VI I, 7. 

 " On a collection of Land Shells and Slugs made at Gibraltar in 



1863, with a list of the species."— (1868), Proc, VIII, 7S. 



" Notes made during a Visit to the Shell-Beds of Uddevalla, 

 Sweden." — (1876J, Proc, XV., ijj. 



