122 The Late J. George Jeffreys, M.D., F.RS. 



of the Natural History Society. He had given some attention 

 to the study of entomology, but his life-work related to the 

 natural history and distribution of the mollusca. As to his 

 kindly and genial nature and friendly and public-spirited disposi- 

 tion, all of his many friends on both sides of the Atlantic well 

 agree with the statements in the following extract from the 

 obituary in the London Times: — 



" Almost from its foundation he was a constant and prominent 

 attendant at the meetings of the British Association ; he was 

 president of the biological section in 1877, and one of the vice- 

 presidents at the meeting in Swansea in 1880. With his keen 

 interest in the promotion of biological research generally, he was 

 one of the founders of the Marine Biological Association of Great 

 Britain. For forty-five years he has been a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, and latterly one of the guiding spirits at the Royal Soc- 

 iety Club. At the age of twenty he was elected to the Linnsean 

 Society. Of the Geological Society he was treasurer for many 

 years, and of many foreign societies he was an honorary member. 

 Dr. Jeffreys, while strong in his own opinions, was one of the most 

 genial of men, and a man of many friends. He was not a Dar- 

 winian in the full sense of that term ; he thought the evidence of 

 his shells was against the doctrine, but his opposition had nothing 

 of bitterness. Dr. Jeffreys occupied several important public po- 

 sitions during his lifetime. He was a J.P. of Glamorganshire 

 and Breconshire, as also J.P. andD.L. of Hertfordshire, for which 

 county he served as High Sheriff in 1877. In recent years he 

 has lived mostly at Ware Priory , Herts, where he delighted to 

 exercise a liberal hospitality. Dr. Jeffreys had a son and five 

 daughters, one of whom is married to Professor H. N. Moseley." 



