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all the duties of communal life, social, administrative, and philan- 

 thropic, so that the loss of him is felt in many circles. After a 

 period of failing health, he died suddenly on March 8th, 1918. 



Daniel Jones, whose name has been associated with the geology 

 of the Shropshire coalfields for the last half-century, was born in 

 South Staffordshire on May 8th, 1836, and was educated in London 

 and Berlin. From 1853 to 1836 he was associated with his father 

 and grandfather in the management of their ironworks and collieries 

 in South Staffordshire and South Wales. Succeeding to some of 

 the family estates situated near Shifnal, on the eastern border 

 of Shropshire, he was able early to devote himself to the pursuit of 

 geological and mining interests, and in 1869 was appointed an 

 Assistant Commissioner on the first Royal Coal Commission. The 

 results of his investigation of the Wyre- Forest Coalfield were 

 embodied in the Report, issued in 1871. In that and the previous 

 year he published also papers on the sulphur springs of Chillington 

 and Codsall Wood, on the correlation of the South Staffordshire 

 and Coalbrookdale Coalfields, on the Spirorhis Limestone in the 

 Wyre-Forest Coalfield, on the denudation in Carboniferous time 

 of the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, and on the correlation of the Clee- 

 Hill and Coalbrookdale Coalfields. In 1894 he embodied his 

 knowledge of the Wyre-Forest Coalfield in a valuable paper, in 

 which he showed the important effects of denudation in Carboni- 

 ferous time on the productive Coal Measures of that coalfield. 



Daniel Jones's unrivalled knowledge of the coal-bearing districts 

 of South Staffordshire and the Welsh borders proved of great value 

 to the mining industry, not only in preventing useless expenditure, 

 but also in directing enterprise to suitable localities. 



His interests were not confined to these practical applications 

 of his favourite science. From 1872 until 1914 he served as 

 Employees' Secretary to the Midland Iron & Steel Wages Board, and 

 held the secretaryship of the South Staffordshire Ironmasters' Asso- 

 ciation. He fostered the early Volunteer movement, encouraged 

 local agricultural societies, served as a Commissioner of Taxes, and 

 took his seat on the bench of magistrates. He was a Fellow of 

 this Society from 1869 until 1910. 



A man of fine culture, wide sympathies, and liberal outlook, he 

 will be greatly missed by those whose geological studies of his 

 native district received his ever-ready encouragement. He died in 

 his 83rd year on November 23rd, 1918, and was buried at Donington 

 near Albrighton. [T. C. C] 



