338 IN MEMORIAM—GEORGE WILLIAM SHRUBSOLE. 
successfully a botanical class in the Mechanics’ Institute, and in 1871, 
gave in the ‘Old King’s School’ a series of lectures, which were 
published afterwards under the title of ‘Town Geology.’ Mr. Shrubsole 
was at this time brought into very close contact with Canon Kingsley, — 
as he possessed the only collection of fossils in the city. These he 
placed unreservedly at the Canon’s disposal, for the purpose of 
illustrating his lectures. Canon Kingsley’s discourses were received 
with enthusiasm, and there gathered around him the whole intel- 
lectual life of Chester. We must, also, not omit to mention that the 
late Mr. Daniel Mackintosh, F.G.S., was then residing in Chester, — 
and followed up Canon Kingsley’s labours with a systematic course 
of lectures upon Geology. In 1871, the Chester Society of Natural 
Science was founded by Canon Kingsley, and Mr. Shrubsole was 
elected chairman of the Geological Section. He worthily filled the 
position for nearly twenty years, and during that period delivered 
many addresses of great local interest. 
In 1873, on the proposition of Canon Kingsley, Mr. Shrubsole 
was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. In 1879, Mr. 
O. A. Shrubsole, and in 1885, Mr. W. H. Shrubsole, the two 
younger brothers of the deceased, became Fellows of the Geological 
Society, and, more remarkable still, they have all contributed papers 
‘which have appeared in the Society’s Publications’—an achieve- 
ment by three brothers, so far as I am aware of, quite unique in the 
annals of the Geological Society of London. Between 1879 and 
1884 Mr. Shrubsole published six papers in the ‘Quarterly Journal 
of the Geological Society,’ upon the Palzeozoic Polyzoa, of which he — | : 
had a splendid collection. The late Mr. Vine, with whom he 
worked out the fossil Polyzoa, only survived him a fortnight. In 
1883 Mr. Shrubsole was presented with the Kingsley | Memorial 
_ Medal of the Chester Natural Science Society, ‘for having con- 
tributed materially to the promotion and advancement of some — 
branch or department of natural science.’ In 1886 he contributed © 
a paper to the ei Society, ‘On the Erosion of Certain — 
Freshwater Shells. In October, 1884, Mr. Shrubsole gathered — 
from the Trent Canal at Stone, Staffordshire, twenty specimens of 
Planorbis corneus, a species not known in Cheshire, Stoke being the 
nearest habitat, These he transferred to his aquarium, supplied 
with Dee water, * The mielle of ‘the Planorbes,’ he observes, ‘when 
I gathered» _ were i j. After some time — 
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