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at Cheltenham Training College in 1864-65. For the next six 

 years he was headmaster of various elementary schools. 



In 1872 he was appointed chief Curator of the Leicester Cor- 

 poration Museum, and while he held this office he attended during 

 parts of four years courses at the Normal School of Science, South 

 Kensington. 



In the year 1880 he received the appointment of Chief Science 

 Master to the Birmingham School Board, in 1902 he was made 

 Chief Science Demonstrator, and until the day of his death, June 6th, 

 1908, all the scientific instruction of the Birmingham elementary 

 schools was carried out under his direction. 



Yery early in life he contracted a love for scientific study and 

 research, especially in geology. One of his first geological papers 

 was on his discovery of Bhaetic Beds in Leicestershire : this was 

 published in our Quarterly Journal in 1876. He followed up this 

 work by papers on the geology of various parts of Leicestershire 

 (Charnwood Forest, Brazil Wood, etc), contributed to various local 

 and other societies. After coming to Birmingham he took up for a 

 time the investigation of the ancient rocks of the district, sum- 

 marizing his work and conclusions in his paper on ' The Pre- 

 Carboniferous Floor of the Midlands ' (1885), for which the 

 Midland Union of Naturalists' Societies awarded him their Darwin 

 Medal. We also owe to him the first discovery of rocks of Cambrian 

 age at Dost Hill (1886). 



As early as 1878 he had begun to study with ardour the Glacial 

 deposits of the Midlands. From that time onwards his affection 

 for this branch of geology increased. Long before his death he 

 had made himself one of the acknowledged authorities on the 

 subject. At this he worked for some time in company with the 

 late Dr. Crosskey, but of recent years practically alone. His first 

 contribution was a scheme for the systematic examination of these 

 deposits. Later on he dealt with the Quartzite-Pebbles in the Drift 

 (1883), the Glaciology of the Yorkshire Coast (1 895), and the best- 

 known of his series was his Bibliography of Midland Glaciology. 



He also assisted Dr. Crosskey in bringing out the late Carvell 

 Lewis's papers on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain & Ireland 

 (1894), and he contributed the chapter on the Ancient Glaciers of 

 the Midlands to the Sketch of the Geology of the Birmingham 

 District, published by the Geologists' Association in 1898. 



He was elected a Fellow of our Society in 1876, and was 

 awarded the Barlow-Jameson Fund in 1890. 



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