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study and collection ; and in 1835 there appeared in the " Philoso- 

 phical Magazine " a catalogue of the fossil fish in their joint collections, 

 with references to the localities, geological positions, and published 

 descriptions of the species. The ardour of the two collectors never 

 ceased, and in 1841 a catalogue of fossil fish in the collections of the 

 Earl of Enniskillen and Sir P. Grey Egerton was published in the 

 " Annals of Natural History;" and in 1869 an alphabetical catalogue 

 of the type specimens in Sir Philip's collection was printed in the 

 " Geological Magazine." The two collections that thus went on side 

 by side are undoubtedly the most complete that have ever been formed 

 by private individuals, and mutually illustrate each other. That 

 formed by the Earl of Enniskillen has fortunately been acquired by 

 the Trustees of the British Museum, and there appears to be some 

 prospect of Sir Philip Egerton's collection becoming also the property 

 of the nation. The two series, in conjunction with the specimens 

 already in the national collection, will probably render it unrivalled 

 in the department of fossil Ichthyology. 



Sir Philip was, however, not merely a collector, but a careful and 

 scientific observer and a good naturalist. His memoirs on fossil 

 fishes, for the most part contained in the publications of the Geolo- 

 gical Society of London and in the " Decades of the Geological 

 Survey," are upwards of seventy in number, and many of them of 

 great importance. He was also the author of various papers on fossil 

 reptiles, on ossiferous caves, and on other subjects. 



He became a Fellow of the Geological Society in the year 1829, and 

 was elected F.B.S. in February, 1831, having thus been a member of 

 our body for upwards of fifty years. His memoir on " Chondrosteus, 

 an Extinct Genus of the Sturionida? found in the Lias Formation at 

 Lyme Kegis," was printed in the " Phil. Trans." for 1858. For his 

 distinguished services in geological and palseontological science he 

 received from the President and Council of the Geological Society the 

 Wollaston Medal in 1873. 



At the time of his death he was the senior elected Trustee of the 

 British Museum, one of the original Trustees of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, a Trustee of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons of London, and a member of the Senate of the Univer- 

 sity of London. 



His public as well as his scientific services were great. He was a 

 Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire, and 

 Lieutenant- Colonel of the Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Either as 

 Member of Parliament for the City of Chester or for the Southern or 

 Western Divisions of Cheshire, he sat in the House of Commons from 

 the year 1830, being of late the oldest member but one of that 

 House. 



Of a genial and kind disposition, of great business ability, and of 



