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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. is. AUGUST 15, 1917. xNo. 7. 



OBITUARY NOTICE: REV. LEWIS J. SHACKLEFORD. 



By R. STANDEN. 



(Read l)efore the Society, May 9th, 1917). 



The Society has sustained a severe loss in the person of its Honorary 

 Secretary, the Rev. L. J. Shackleford, who passed away on April 13th, 

 after a long illness, in his sixty-first year. 



He was trained for the Baptist ministry at Rawdon, and settled in 

 his first pastorate at Ripley in 1879. Five years later he was selected 

 to' fill an important vacancy in New Zealand, and ultimately removed 

 to Adelaide, South Australia. Returning to England in 1897, he was 

 appointed to a church in Clitheroe, and from there removed to Black- 

 burn. While in the Blackburn area he devoted himself to research 

 work in connection with the Ice Age phenomena of the Ribble 

 Valley from Malham in Yorkshire to the sea at Blackpool, making a 

 special study of the sea-cliffs at Bispham. He published several 

 important papers, which he ultimately embodied in a book called 

 "The Story of the Great Ice-Age in the Fylde and Ribble Valley," 

 illustrated with many of his own photographs. 



Mr. Shackleford joined the Conchological Society in 1893, and was 

 elected Honorary Secretary in October, 1907, which post he held to 

 the time of his death. He was a regular attendant at the meetings 

 till towards the close of last year, when failing health prevented him 

 from taking the journey from Blackpool. His last appearance was at 

 the Annual Meeting, held in Manchester, on October 14th, 1916. 



For a number of years he was a Field Lecturer in connection with 

 the Co-operative Holidays Association ; and some fifteen months 

 ago he was made President of the Blackpool Microscopical Society. 



While in the Antipodes he began his fine collection of marine shells, 

 of which the Vobitidce. were his special favourites. He possessed a wide 

 and accurate knowledge of many special groups, and was particularly 

 interested in the mollusca of Lifu, Loyalty Islands, a species of Nassa 

 from there being named after him. A species of Margi?iella also bears 

 his name. 



Of late years he did a large amount of research work in connection 

 with the mollusca of Sao Thome. 



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