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Not to dwell too long upon his career as a citizen, it may be 

 sufficient to say that Mr. Davis was installed Mayor of Halifax in 

 November 1890, and it was in the following February that he 

 entered the Council of the Geological Society, serving on it for two 

 years. So pleased were his fellow-townsmen with their Mayor that 

 they elected him three times in succession to fill that office, and well 

 might it have been for him if his friends had been less exacting : 

 for the Nemesis which attends over-exertion had already cast a 

 shadow upon him, as nearly two years have now elapsed since 

 he first began to suffer from insomnia. Change of scene, so far as 

 his engagements would allow, was tried on different occasions with 

 partial success, and few would have conjectured when Mr. Davis was 

 with us at our last Anniversary Meeting that his end was so near. 

 Later in the spring he went on a visit to Paris, and, not benefiting 

 much by the change, tried some rural districts in Yorkshire, finally 

 settling at his old quarters in Bridlington, where he died very 

 suddenly on July 21st, 1893, at the early age of 47. 



George William Shrubsole was born at Faversham, in Kent, in 

 1827, and when a young man made his way to Chester, where he 

 resided for the past forty years in business as a chemist. He was- 

 well known to his fellow- citizens in connexion with the Chester 

 Society of Natural Science, of which, along with the late Canon 

 Kingsley, he was one of the founders. He was appointed first 

 Chairman of the Geological Section of that society, a post he held 

 for twenty years, and was, moreover, their first Honorary Curator. 

 During this period he arranged and largely added to their collection 

 of Lower Silurian fossils from the Glyn Ceiriog district, in addition 

 to other work. He was also well known for the interest he took in 

 archaeological research. 



Mr. Shrubsole became a Fellow of this Society in 1873, and has 

 been in correspondence with the officers on more than one occasion, 

 notably when he succeeded in recovering some specimens of fossil 

 fishes belonging to our museum from the waters of the Dee. In 

 biology and palaeontology he has principally worked among the 

 mollusca and some of the lower invertebrates. 



Mr. G. W. Shrubsole was one of three brothers, all of whom have 

 made communications to this Society in their capacity as Fellows. 

 He died at Chester on July 21st, 1893, at the age of 66. 



Edward Charlesworth was born at Clapham, in Surrey, on the 

 13th September, 1813, being the eldest son of the Rev. John 

 Charlesworth, rector of St. Mildred, Bread Street, London. Much 



