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JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS. 
Representatives of the Geological Society. 
Leeds Geological Society. 
Leeds Field Naturalists' Club. 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. 
Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 
Leeds Astronomical Society. 
Governors of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. 
Freemasons — Lodge of Probity (61) St. James' and other Lodges. 
Halifax Chamber of Commerce. 
Corporation Officials. 
County and Borough Magistrates. 
Members of Parliament. 
Councillors. 
Aldermen. 
Deputy Mayor and Borough Treasurer. 
The Mace. 
The Hearse. 
Mourners' Carriages. 
Other Carriages. 
The last ceremony took place at Salterhebble Church, and was 
most impressively conducted by Archdeacon Brooke, Canon Warne- 
ford, and Rev. G. T. Jowett. 
The broad sympathetic frank genial nature of Mr. Davis every- 
where won him friends ; the silent reverent respect with which the 
crowds of people who lined the streets as the sad procession passed 
along bore evidence of this, and this feeling was manifested in various 
ways by all classes. 
Only the briefest reference can here be given to his position as 
a public man apart from his career as a geologist. As an education- 
alist he was unwearied ; he was for some years Chairman of the 
Scientific Committee of the Halifax School Board, and the chief 
promoter of the Halifax Technical School, in which to the last days 
of his useful life his active interest was intense ; he introduced 
the Gilchrist Lectures to Halifax ; he was for a time Secretary of 
the Yorkshire Fine Art Society ; an active member and Chairman 
of Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; held in due 
