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youth we find him attending the evening classes in geology at the 
Mechanics’ Institution under the late Mr. Edward Wilson, in con- 
junction with whom he afterwards did much excellent work. His 
first published paper seems to have been ‘ On a Conglomerate at 
the Base of the Lower Keuper,’ which appeared in the Geological 
Magazine for 1877; and this was followed at frequent intervals 
during the next 12 or 15 years by papers on the Triassic, Permian, 
and Carboniferous rocks of Nottinghamshire, the alluvial deposits 
of the Trent and Leen Valleys, the bone-caves of Cresswell Crags, 
etc. For several years before his first article appeared, however, he 
had been laboriously engaged in tracing and mapping the boundaries 
of the formations in and around Nottingham, and the results of his 
labours were incorporated in the second edition of the Geological 
Survey Map, issued in 1880, Mr. Aveling, in the accompanying 
Memoir, handsomely acknowledging the great assistance that he 
had derived from Mr. Shipman’s work. In 1884 a large-scale 
geological map of the borough of Nottingham, by Mr. Shipman, 
was published by the Corporation as an Appendix to a Report of 
the Health Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 
Society of London in the following year. 
It is hardly too much to say that for over 30 years not an ex- 
cavation was made in Nottingham, whether for the foundations of 
a building, the construction of a sewer, new road, or railway, but 
Mr. Shipman might have been seen, note-book, tape-measure, and 
hammer in hand, carefully noting every variation in the strata, 
thickness and dip of the beds, direction and amount of throw of the 
faults, etc. Every boring for coal and water was visited time after 
time, the cores were carefully examined, and a detailed section of the 
borehole was drawn carefully to scale. No fact, however trifling, 
was deemed too unimportant for notice, and this extreme thorough- 
ness and conscientiousness was the keynote of all his work. 
Nor did he confine his attention to geology alone. The clearing 
away of condemned areas, the construction of new railways, and 
especially of the great Victoria Station, which have so profoundly 
changed the appearance of the centre of Nottingham during recent 
years, led to many archeological discoveries of the greatest interest 
and importance. 
Not the least valuable part of Mr. Shipman’s services to geology 
was the interest that he created in his favourite science among his 
fellow-citizens, and especially among working-men. He had long 
been a teacher at the Men’s Sunday Morning Institute & Pleasant 
Sunday Afternoon Classes, and from these two bodies he gathered 
