In Memoriam—Charles B. Dyer. 207 
IN MEMORIAM. 
CHARLES B. Dyer. 
The undersigned committee, appointed to prepare a memorial on Mr. 
Charles B. Dyer,.beg leave to report the following— 
Mr. Charles B. Dyer was born near Dudley Castle, in Worcester- 
shire, England, April 1, 1806, and died, at his suburban home, on Mt. 
Harrison, in this city, on the 11th day of July, 1883. 
In early years he was compelled to labor for himself, and the support 
of his mother, and, consequently, his education was neglected. In 
1828 he came to this city, and soon thereafter located on Columbia 
street, and engaged in business as a soap and candle manufacturer. 
In 1832 he married Miss Elizabeth Langtry, who survives. They had 
nine children, seven of whom are living, and most highly respected. 
He commenced business on Columbia street, without money, and on a 
small scale, but, by constant labor, night and day, extended his trade, 
and accumulated a competency. As soon as he felt himself secure in 
monetary affairs, he retired from business. This was, about thirty 
years ago. He was active and industrious, and method characterized 
every thing he did. 
In his younger years he was fond of hunting, and, when his interest 
first began to attach to fossils, he would start his hunt for game with 
a gun, and return with a pocket full of fossils. Soon after he retired 
from business, the gun was laid aside for the hammer, and, from that 
time until his death, he was an ardent, energetic, paleontological col- 
lector. 
He acquired some knowledge of nearly all branches of Natural His- 
tory, and became quite conversant with local botany. He beautified 
his home in the selection of trees, and made it most lovely with plants 
and the fragrance of flowers. 
His collection grew so rapidly, that, in the course of ten or fifteen 
years, it became somewhat noted, and, in 1866, eight new species were 
described from it; these were followed by as many more, in 1871, which 
appeared in the Twenty-fourth Report of the New York State Museum 
of Natural History. The collection was thrown open to Prof. Meek, 
and, in 1873, many fossils from it were illustrated in the first volume 
of the Ohio Palzontology. Since that time numerous Species have 
been defined in the publications of this Society, and in the Cincinnati 
Quarterly Journal of Science, beside seventeen species, which appeared 
in a paper entitled, “Coutributions to Paleontology, No. 2, by S. A 
