164 GEORGE STACEY GIBSON. 
Smith, illustrated, at Mr. Gibson’s expense, by twelve ne 
plates, in the forthcoming part of the ‘ Transactions of the Essex 
from the Crag; and one of the chief occupations of the last three 
years of his life has been the re-arrangement of the very excellent 
local Museum of Natural History originally founded by him in con- 
junction with his uncle, Jabez Gibso 
In 1877 and 1878 he held the ofits of Mayor of Walden, and at 
the time of his death he was an alderman and J.P. for the borough, 
and senior partner of the firm of Gibson, Tuke, and Gibson,* 
Gibson in commemoration of the Prince of es’s marriage. He 
built a new Town Hall and several alms ‘gamer i town ; 
further endowed the Hospital founded Pe his father; gave thirty 
acres as a site for the Friends’ Se hoo ich he was Treasurer ; 
Foreign School Society’s Training College. "He was also a liberal 
mployed. Fo 
as ‘Clerk of the Yearly Meeting,” over the conferences of the 
Temperance Hotel, ig Street, K.C., on April 5th, of 
inflammation of the kidn 
He was buried on the ‘ith in So pretty little ee -ground 
behind the Friends’ Meeting House, in his native town, being 
followed to the grave by about aie titiiend people, testifying to 
the generat respect for one of whom it has been said that ‘‘he does 
not seem to have left a single enemy.” 
Smnall of stature and with a face in which several persons have 
been struck by a tires to Mr. Herbert Spencer, he was quiet 
and unobtrusive in man Seldom speaking until he had formed 
a matured opinion, he We: an unusually ‘ well-read’? man, of wide 
culture and of sound judgment. Exact, punctual, cautious, and 
conscientious in an unusual degree, he was alike fitted to succeed 
in business or in os investigation. It has been written of 
him by those who knew him personally that ‘the eiccaragas of 
intellectual and moral qualities made him what he was. 
to a deal. His unbounded liberality was never indiscriminate : 
sia Chas one of the “heron er number of botanists for whiins We are 
indebted ‘ ttle banking profession, among whom have been Dawson  acieae 
Willi Borrer, Edward Pontak “and the present President of the Linne 
Séeiety, the two last members of one firm. 
