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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. i6. AUGUST 30, 1919. No. 2. 



OBITUARY NOTICE : 

 WILLIAM DENISON ROEBUCK, M.Sc, F.L.S., etc. 



By J. W. TAYLOR, M.Sc. 



(Read before the Society, April gth, 1919). 



By the lamented death of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, of Leeds, the 

 Society is deprived of one of its Founders, as well as one of its most 

 faithful and enthusiastic adherents, while conchology and science 

 generally lose a devoted, successful, and disinterested follower. 



He was born in Leeds on January 5th, 185 1, and spent his early 

 years with his parents in the village of Pannal, near Harrogate, a 

 circumstance which probably gave a practical turn to that love of 

 nature which clung to him through life. 



After a long, healthy, and active life, he was struck down without 

 warning by a paralytic stroke on January 19th, and died on February 

 15th, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. 



Mr. Roebuck was by nature and instinct a bibliographer, statis- 

 tician, and bookworm, and on entering upon a practical scientific 

 career commenced and consistently kept an accurate record of his 

 captures and observations. 



Mr. Roebuck's scientific writings have been numerous and varied, 

 embracing valuable contributions, not only to conchology, but to 

 entomology, mammalogy, and other subjects, though the only com- 

 plete work with which he was identified was " The Handbook of 

 Yorkshire Vertebrates," in collaboration with his old friend, Dr. 

 W. Eagle Clarke. 



He was also closely associated with the inception of " The Mono- 

 graph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles," 

 for many years diligently assisted in its preparation, and especially 

 collaborated with the author in the production of the second volume, 

 which is devoted to the elucidation of the British slugs, for which 

 Mr. Roebuck's special studies particularly fitted him. 



