hi Memoriam — Robert Law. 



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of the cave bear in that part of the county. From the Mountain 

 Limestone of Castleton, in Derbyshire, and of Chtheroe, in 

 Lancashire, his wanderings widened, until finally he visited the 

 Lias districts of the East Coast of Yorkshire, and a great part 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, and even caused the mountains 

 of Switzerland and Canada to echo to the sound of the strokes 

 of his hammer. 



Prehistoric Archaeology Md a great charm for him. In 1879, 

 in company with Mr. James Horsfall, he began to search the 

 moorlands for flint implements. The results of the labours have 

 been recorded in the following papers : — 



1882. ' On the Discovery of Flint Implements on the Hills between 

 Todmorden and Marsden.' 



1884. ' An account of small Flint Instruments found beneath Peat 

 on the Pennine Chain.' 



Further papers written by himself alone, are : — 



1897, ' Evidences of Pre-historic Man on the moorlands in and around 

 the parish of Halifax.' 



1897. " ^lounds on Norland Moor, Halifax.' 



1898. The Discovery of Cineran,- Urns at Todmorden.' 



Glacial Geology, too, occupied much of his time and thought, 

 and he especially studied the glaciology of the Calder Valley, 

 and the evidence of glaciation afforded on the sinking of a 

 foundation for a gasometer near Todmorden. 



In his younger days, Darwinism and Evolution were being 

 keenly discussed. He was an early believer in and defender of 

 these theories, and ' maintained a very spirited and novel 

 controversy in verse on the subject with one of his contem- 

 poraries — the effusions being pinned up at the back of the 

 Institute door, to the great amusement and edification of the 

 rest of the members.' 



Perhaps his most successful collecting excursions were 

 those made in search of Carboniferous fossils. When visiting the 

 geological collections in London, he was particularly inter- 

 ested in these, and there and then came to a clearly defined and 

 firm decision that on this group of fossils he would specialise, 

 and devote to them the powers and energies of his life. 



Mrs. Law, referring to the happy annual trips made for many 

 years to collect Carboniferous fossils along with her husband 

 in the Isle of Man, says : — ' My late husband commenced 

 collecting Carboniferous fossils at Poolvash, in the south of the 

 Isle of Man, in 1888, and continued this work, making some 

 fourteen yearly visits, until 1901. He spent three or four weeks 

 each year during the months of July and August, collecting 



1908 Februaer i. 



