lx PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL socrnTy. [May 1902, 
round him a band of men who formed themselves into a Saturday 
afternoon Rambling Club for outdoor work in geology. Of this 
Club he remained President and leader up to the last, preparing 
for the use of the members a set of beautiful maps and sections 
of the strata around Nottingham, which he had lithographed, and 
coloured by hand himself. Recently he drew up and published a 
coloured ‘Table of the Stratified Rocks of the British Isles, giving 
details of thickness, typical areas, conditions of deposit, character- 
istic fossils, etc., with a separate column on a larger scale showing 
the local (that is, the Nottinghamshire) development. He had been 
repeatedly urged to utilize his unrivalled knowledge in preparing a 
detailed work on the geology of Nottinghamshire, and it is believed 
that he had such a work in contemplation at the time of his death. 
It is greatly to be hoped that his papers have been left in such a 
condition that this desirable object may still be carried out. 
Gentle as he was, self-effacing, and retiring to an unusual degree, 
only those who knew Mr. Shipman well were aware of the indomit- 
able energy and industry which enabled him, in spite of scant leisure, 
straitened means, and health which was never robust, to accomplish 
an amount of work of which any man might have been proud. 
Among these his memory will long be cherished. [oe Wied 
Information has only lately reached us of the death on December 9th, 
1900, of the Rev. Freperick Smiruz, M.A., LL.D., vicar of Church- 
down (Gloucestershire). Dr. Smithe, who belonged to an Irish 
family, was born in 1822 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. 
He was presented to the living of Churchdown (or ‘ Chosen,’ as it is 
locally pronounced) in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a 
Fellow of this Society. Residing, as he now did, on an outlier of 
the Middle and Upper Lias, these formations naturally attracted a 
large share of Dr. Smithe’s attention, and he pursued his observations 
on Dumbleton Hill and elsewhere, the results being communicated 
to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club. He discovered opercula 
of Euonvphalus in the Wenlock Limestone on the borders of May 
Hill, and in addition to his studies on mollusca and brachiopoda, 
he contributed to the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club papers 
on vivianite, celestite, and on the behaviour of granites when 
exposed to high temperatures.’ [H. B. W.] 
2 Most of the above particulars are derived from the Presidential Address of 
Mr. E. B. Wethered to the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club, Proc, vol. xiv 
(1901) p. 2. 
