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graph on the Asterocheridse. He was in correspondence 

 with Clans, Richard, Giesbrecht, Brian, Poppe, Canu, and 

 other Continental workers, and frequently supplied them 

 with British specimens required for comparison or for 

 description in their monographs. 



This original and special scientific work did not, 

 however, represent all his work for Science. There were 

 few of our local organisations for the advancement of 

 science, and the application of scientific teaching, in 

 which Mr. Thompson did not play a prominent part. 

 Although fully occupied as an active man of business, 

 with many concerns on his mind and hands, he found 

 time to help on good work on very varied lines. 

 Few men had more appeals for lectures, for papers, for 

 help in organising, for his services (which were always 

 highly valued) as Hon. Treasurer of funds, as member of 

 Council or Committee ; and never in the experience of 

 some of us were such appeals made to him in vain. He 

 has discoursed with equal success on the wonders of Nature 

 in the lecture theatres of the University and the mission 

 halls of the slums, and many in Liverpool must have 

 heard him expound, either at scientific meetings or in 

 conversation, the importance of Biology to man, and the 

 value of his minute crustaceans both as the food of many 

 fishes, and also as scavengers of the sea. 



He took a keen interest in educational matters, and 

 held advanced views as to the teaching of science to the 

 young, and the exclusion of religious instruction from 

 schools. He was Treasurer of the Hope Street Unitarian 

 Schools for twenty years, until they were taken over by 

 the new authority under the recent Education Act. His 

 interest in the progress of University College and the 

 establishment of the University has been unfailing. lie 

 was delighted at the provision made for local marine 



