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THOMAS ‘TATE, FG. 
THE memory of Mr. ‘Thomas Tate is worthy of preservation in any 
Yorkshire scientific journal, and especially so in the organ of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, of which he was a member of the 
General Committee for many years, and twice President of its 
Geological Section. He was an occasional contributor to the 
‘Naturalist, the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and 
Polytechnic Society and the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society. 
He was born in Leeds on the rst of January, 1833. For several 
years he attended a school in Princess Street, off West Street, and 
afterwards received private instruction from a clergyman. At the 
age of fourteen he entered the warehouse of Messrs. A. and S. Henry 
and Co., at Leeds, and continued with that firm on their removal to 
Bradford, remaining in their employ until he was about thirty years 
of age, when he commenced business in the stuff trade on his own 
account. During a period of bad trade in Bradford, when many 
large firms of stuff and wool merchants failed, he closed his ware- 
house and disposed of his stock. 
For many years he had devoted much of his leisure to scientific 
studies, including botany, entomology, and geology, attending 
evening classes for instruction. He was also an early member of 
the Bradford Scientific Association, of which he was Vice-President 
when the first series of Gilchrist lectures was given at Bradford, and 
he was a contributor to the guarantee fund for the expenses. He also 
Save a series of lectures on Geology to the members, and conducted 
several excursions to places in the Bradford basin, with the principal 
geological features of which he had become thoroughly acquainted, as 
Well as with those of the upper valley of the Aire. He also conducted 
€xcursions to the ponds of the district for the study of pond life, 
and he contributed to the ‘Naturalist’ an excellent paper on the 
Organisation of the Water Flea (Daphnia pulex). 
In 1879, in conjunction with Mr. Walter Morn : 
House, Malham, and several members of the Yorkshire Geological 
and Polytechnic Society, he conducted an investigation of the 
Sources of the River Aire, tracing the water from Malham Tarn to 
Springs at Airehead, and the stream issuing from the base 2 = : 
=e, by Opening the sluices of the Tarn and flooding the intervening 
district containing swallow holes through which the water escapes, 
and observing its reappearance. Acting as Secretary for the party, 
Dee. 1897, | 
orrison, of Tarn 
