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Encrinus, and a Briarian Pentacrinus, inserted in vol. v. of the 1 st 

 series of our Transactions ; the other memoir heing Remarks on the 

 Strata at Stinchcombe, near Dursley, Gloucestershire, published in 

 vol. i. of our 2nd series of Transactions. We have also a MS. description 

 by Mr. Cumberland, sent to us in 1818, of the portion of the Moun- 

 tain Limestone series, exposed on the Avon, near Bristol, named the 

 Black Rock. He also published in 1818, at Bristol, a work entitled 

 * Reliquiae Conservatse, from the Primitive Materials of our present 

 Globe, with popular descriptions of some remarkable Encrinites and 

 their connecting links.' 



Late in life he occupied himself much with landscape painting, 

 and he has left many hundred water-colour drawings, finished on the 

 spot, of scenes in the vicinity of Bristol. These have been considered 

 to possess much merit from their freshness and truth. For the last 

 ten years he was afflicted by blindness. Though so great a calamity 

 to one who could so well employ his sight, he still continued cheerful 

 and happy, and retained his faculties until the day of his death. He 

 expired at Bristol on the 8th of August, 1848, in the 95th year of 

 his age. 



Dr. Samuel Hibbert "Ware was born at Manchester on the 

 21st of April, 1782, and was the eldest son of Mr. Samuel Hibbert, 

 of Clarendon House, Chorlton, Lancashire. He was first destined 

 for the army, and for some time held a commission in a militia re- 

 giment. Succeeding to an independent fortune, he passed through a 

 course of medical studies in order the better to fit him for those pur- 

 suits to which he was desirous of dedicating his time, and took his 

 degree of M.D. in the University of Edinburgh in 1816. In 1817 

 he made his first voyage to the Shetland Islands, to which the faci- 

 lity of access was then very different than at present ; and among 

 the other results of his visit, there found chromate of iron in con- 

 siderable abundance. At the request, chiefly, of Professor Jameson, 

 he again visited the Shetlands in the following year, with the view 

 of rendering his discovery of the chromate of iron publicly useful, 

 and of completing his geological survey of those islands. For his 

 researches connected with the former the Society of Arts awarded 

 him their Gold Isis Medal in 1820, and the results of his labours 

 were given to the public in 1822, under the title of ' Description of 

 the Shetland Islands, comprising an Account of their Geology, 

 Scenery, Antiquities and Superstitions.' Though occupied much by 

 antiquarian researches and other inquiries, including among the latter 

 the philosophy of apparitions, upon which he first communicated a 

 paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and afterwards published, 

 in 1824, a separate work. Dr. Hibbert did not neglect his geological 

 pursuits. After examining the volcanic districts of Italy, France, 

 and parts of Germany during two or three years, he published, in 

 18.32, a portion of his observations in his * History of the Extinct 

 Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine.' In 1833 

 he communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh a memoir " On 

 the Freshwater Limestone of Burdiehouse, in the neighbourhood of 



