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r. Lister Sy et erston, Lancashire, would be obliged to those who have 
orth L 
the a = hye or still better a copy of the papers. y people have 
botanised n the baled the Brathay, a the Datdon, that Thats such 
lists are in Guiciie, and are very difficult to trace. References to newspaper 
articles not desired. 
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Death has been busy this year se sin the idauastieg of our northern counties, 
and the obituary list is a long on 
Cheshire has also to mourn the loss of Mr. G. W. Shrubsole, of pire one 
of the founders and most valued members of the Chester Society of National 
te and a good worker among the mollusca and some lower forms of animal 
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Many will learn with regret of the death, in his 8oth year, of the Rev. H. H. 
ba age MA., of Liverpool. Mr. Higgins day the author of numerous books and © 
in atural Heangts He founded, 1860, the Liverpool Naturalists’ 
Field Club, & b, and has also been President of the  Miewacopicat and the Literary and 
Philosophical Societies of the same city. 
We record, with regret, the death of a eo known . Yorkshire naturals and 
geologist, Mr. ‘George Robert Vine, of Sheffi Almost entirely self-educated, 
M hi a ith the mi 
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sr ey of ‘The Naturalist’ will remember his series of articles some years agO 
on ieguming csargmr mac of the Northern Colanieds Shales,’ and other © 
in volum 
papers oe 
Be the decease of the Mayor of Halifax Oa. . James Win. Davis, F: Sy Be 
F.L.S., etc.), hf rlgas Brisgie a geologist who has done no small share of 
scientific work in spite of the claims upon his sear by soeoinerclal and aunicipad 
Piste 
which appeared in 1878 from the pens of himself and Mr. F. Arnold Lees. 
loss will be particularly = Ba — Yorkshie — and Polytechnic Society, 
to which he became Hon tary at a time of depression in the Society's : : 
Wem to deplore the death of Me. Robert ‘Robert Holland, of Frodsham, Chesite : 
which took last June. Iting botanist and examiner 0 
rth Chee ult Society. He was a See tae ist, and an 
Lk: ie _He will ever be remembered for the * Dictionary 
of Ene Plant Names,’ writt in conjunction ay with Mr. James ames: }, and for 
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