﻿144 Obituary — Humphry Salwey. 



HUMPHRY SALWEY. 



Born 1803. Died 1877- 



Me. Humphry Salwey, who died on January the 21st, at his 

 residence, The Cliff, Ludlow, was one of the earliest pioneers of 

 geological research in the Old Red Sandstone and Silurian districts ; 

 and he has formed an important collection of the fossils of the 

 counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire, including many unique 

 specimens. He derived his knowledge almost exclusively from 

 observation, but he did not neglect the recorded observations of 

 others, and his broad views and clear thought were most conspicuously 

 displayed when, in the course of a day's work in the field, he would 

 offer some friendly criticism of theories and conclusions which he 

 could prove that less practical men had too readily admitted. 



It was thus that Mr, Salwey did much valuable teaching, and not 

 a few of his numerous geological friends will be ready to admit that 

 he has given them standpoints from which the vision could penetrate 

 the obscurity in which the geology of a district had been involved 

 by too hasty generalization. 



Mr. Salwey's knowledge of the local geology of his native district 

 was such as can only be obtained by life-long labour. Those who 

 knew him well have cause to lament the loss of a sincere and warm- 

 hearted friend ; but the geologist from afar, to whom he was always 

 ready to extend a cordial welcome, will sustain a loss which cannot 

 easily be replaced — that of an experienced and sound expositor of 

 the typical Ludlow district. It was here that he delighted to 

 welcome his fellow- workers, and to offer to them his open and un- 

 assuming hospitality ; and the cordial welcome with which he and 

 his family received the members of the Geologists' Association at 

 The Cliff on the occasion of their visit to Ludlow in 1872, will ever 

 be gratefully remembered by those who were present, several of 

 whom have kept up the acquaintance then for the first time formed, 

 and have revisited more than once the beautiful neighbourhood, 

 rejDlete with geological interest, then for the first time seen. 



Mr. Salwey was one of the founders of the Ludlow Museum, 

 which he has enriched with many valuable geological specimens. 

 He has discovered several new species of fossils, principally col- 

 lected in the Old Red Sandstone and the Ludlow Eocks, and his 

 name as a palaaozoic geologist is perpetuated in several species ; ' but 

 he was not a writer, and, excepting in a few addresses to the Field 

 Clubs of the neighbouring counties, his extensive knowledge of the 

 geology of his district now, alas ! lives only in the memory of those 

 to whom he was so ready to impart it, or is diffused in their 

 writings. — J. H. 



^ Zenaspis Sahveyi, Egerton ; Necrogammanis Salweyi, H. Woodward ; and 

 Monograptus Salweyi, Hopkinson. 



