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Science. In both capacities he greatly enriched the local collections 
of antiquities and fossils. He also formed a valuable collection of 
recent local land, freshwater, and marine mollusca, and marine 
polyzoa. His natural reticence renders it difficult, even to an 
intimate friend, to do his memory justice, or to record even briefly 
what he accomplished in a lifetime devoted ‘to the search for truth’ 
over so wide and varied fields of observation. Diligent in business 
as in research, his leisure was but change to occupations in which 
pleasures never pall. There was no room for ennui where from 
youth to age each day opened out an ever-widening vista of the 
arcana of nature which might be won. 
He was interred in Chester Cemetery, and gathered round his 
open grave were many men who had laboured in those researches 
in which he so much delighted. 
The results of the scientific work of his life will be his most 
ore monument; let posterity write his epitaph. 
WiLiiAM SHONE, F.G.S. 
‘Upron PARK, CHESTER 
os Gasser 21st, 1893, 
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are indebted to the Rev. J. Magens Mello for a copy of his ‘ Gookayat 
‘Desbyibire,’ which we are sia oat to see has reached a second edition. A general 
_ descripti ser the local geology is given ; the Carboniferous is fully described, with ae 
insert, written b y Mr. 1 lavie-Brown, ‘ 
