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the main employment of the last few years of his life. 
But in addition he produced. a year or two ago a new 
geological map of Liverpool embodying his observations of 
forty years, and wrote the geological portion of the Hand- 
book of the British Association, Liverpool Meeting, 1896. 
Only a week or two before his last short illness he 
remarked to the writer of this notice that when he had 
paid his proposed visit to Anglesea he should have finished 
his work, and appeared rather to fear the prospect of having 
no further work in hand. 
With regard to other work, his Presidential address to 
the Liverpool Geological Society in 1885 on the “ Earliest 
Appearance of each class in the Vegetable and Animal 
Kingdoms,’ is of particular interest to this Society. He 
was a member of the British Association Committee on 
“ Life Zones in the Carboniferous Formations,” and he was 
local secretary to the Palezeontographical Society. 
He devoted great labour to forming his geological 
collections, which were models of what such collections 
should be, and of which the authorities of the British 
Museum showed their high appreciation by securing the 
Palzeozoic portion for the nation. 
In 1891 Mr. Morton issued a second enlarged edition of 
his “ Geology of the country around Liverpool,” and it was 
re-issued with a map and appendix, bringing it up to date 
m 1597. 
In 1892 he was awarded the Lyell Medal by the 
Geological Society of London, and his correspondence with 
our leading geologists both here and abroad shows the high 
estimation in which he was held. Of what be was to his 
personal friends we need not speak here, but there is a large 
circle of younger geologists who will miss the generous friend 
who dispensed the results of his sixty years of geological 
study so freely to all who sought help and encouragement. 
[H. C. B] 
