IN MEMORIAM—GEORGE WILLIAM SHRUBSOLE. 337 
the minor examination of the Pharmaceutical Society, being the 
twenty-fourth to do so. Afterwards he attended the lectures given 
by the Society about 1846-7, and gained prizes in materia medica 
_ and pharmacy, and a certificate in chemistry. He appears to have 
forsaken the profession of a surgeon for that of a chemist. He was 
engaged in some of the best West End chemists’ satahlisheneice. 
until his health failing through over-study, he accepted an engagement 
near Dorking, Surrey. It was there that he took up the science 
of geology, nor can we be surprised, for a more convenient situation 
to examine the Eocene, Chalk, Upper and Lower Greensand, and 
the Weald Clay, could scarcely be selected. The fossils of the 
chalk attracted his principal attention, and of these he made 
a valuable collection. The care and delicate touch with which he } 
removed the chalk from specimens of Flagiostoma spinosum, or 
worked out the attached spines of a Cidaris, well illustrated that 
power of taking infinite pains which characterised every labour of 
his life. In 1853 he removed to Chester, and ultimately succeeded 
to the old-established business of Messrs. John Hope & Sons, 
Chemists, Market Square. His place of business soon became the 
recognised centre to which to take all ‘finds,’ whether archeological 
_ Or otherwise, in order to obtain he opinion as to their value. In boing 
course of years he was thereb 
of Roman and other antiquities, found in Chester ter the el: 
neighbourhood, In 1858, the late Mr. Henry J. Bellars, ‘honorary 
Secretary and curator of the Chester Natural History Society,’ 
published an ‘Illustrated Catalogue of British Land and Freshwater 
_ Shells.’ In this little work we find frequent references to Mr. G. W. 
_ Shrubsole. For instance, at page 15, we read under the heading 
Helix ciate ‘See also sick page, where is represented an unusually 7 
elegant ght with many others from Faversham, __ 
_* Kent, by Mr. G. W. Shrubsole, expressly for this work.’ When = 
__ Studying Natural History or Geology he would rise at daybreak: ee 
_ the summer months, to dredge pit, lake, or river for shells, or to — a 
: visit a. quarry for fossils. ‘The Chester Natural History Society,’ of oe 
- which Mr. ‘Bellars was honor ry secreta ie curator in : BSS, must oo oe 
Sete ee ooo 
a in that year, in a lumber room in the Chester Mechanics’ —— oe 
- Row the Free Library, a hamper. cociatene: an foun gatherum’ oS 
