X. REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
vation, careful record of facts and methodical arrangement 
of specimens which distinguished all his scientific work, 
and was the secret of the great amount of work he was 
able to do. He lectured on Geology to a class at the 
Queen’s College in the fifties, and so fostered a love of 
science in others, and at the close of 1859 was able to 
found the Liverpool Geological Society, which at first held 
its meetings at his house. He was appointed hon. secretary 
which office he continued to hold till 1885, with the 
exception of two Sessions when he was President, and he 
was again elected President for the Sessions 1885 to 1887. 
In 1860 he read his “Geology of the Neighbourhood of 
Shelve in Shropshire,” which he shortly afterwards issued 
separately. In 1863 the Naturalist’s Field Club published 
for him the first edition of his,‘ Geology of the country 
around Liverpool.” In February, 1869, he read what 
may be considered the first of the series of papers on the 
Carboniferous Limestone of North Wales which have gained 
him a European reputation. It was entitled “Paleontological 
Observations on the Carboniferous Limestone of Flintshire.” 
Then followed in November, 1873, “The Carboniferous 
Limestone and Millstone Grit of North Wales.” He 
continued to communicate papers on the same until his 
death. The concluding paper dealing with Anglesea was 
left ready for publication, and only awaited a visit he 
proposed to pay this summer to the district to verify his 
list of fossils. It is with the paleontological portion of his 
work that this Society is primarily interested. His 
lists of fossils are arranged with reference to their relative 
numerical importance in each division of the formation and 
in each locality. Only those who have watched his 
methods of working can have any idea of the pains he 
took to insure accuracy. This and the re-arrangement, 
compiling, and re-cataloging of his unique collections were 
