JAMES WILLIAM DAVIS. 
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course the Chairmanship of the Halifax Literary and Philosophical 
Society, and of the Halifax Scientific Society ; was a Governor 
of the Yorkshire College ; and was thrice elected Mayor of 
Halifax ; and in all these spheres of usefulness he has left a void 
which will not too easily be filled, but, of them all, none (except his 
own family) will feel his loss more keenly than our own Council and 
members, and none will longer miss than the writer 
" The touch of a vanished hand 
And the sound of a voice that is still. " 
William Cash. 
List or Memoirs, Papers, &c, by James William Davis, F.G.S. 
1. Monthly analytical examination of the Harrogate Spas, 1872 [1873]. 
Pharmaceut. Journ. vol. iv. (1874), pp. 481, 482. 
2. On a bone-bed in the Lower Coal-measures, with an enumeration of the 
Fish-remains of which it is principally composed. Quart. Journ. Geol. 
Soc. vol. xxxii. (1876), pp. 332-340. 
3. West Yorkshire, by J. W. Davis and F. A. Lees. An account of its 
Geology, Physical Geography and Botany. Maps and plates, 8vo, 
London, 1878. 
4. The Ichthyography of the Northern portion of the West Riding Coal- 
field. Proc. Mid. Inst, of Min. C. and M. Engineers, vol. vi. pt. xlii. 
p. 1. 1878. 
5. The physical forces which have caused the present configuration of the 
Valley of the Calder in Yorkshire. Geological Magazine, Dec. II. 
vol. v. (1878), pp. 500-508. 
6. On the Occurrences of certain Fish-remains in the Coal-measures, and 
the evidence they afford of their fresh-water origin. Brit. Assoc. Rep. 
(1878), p. 539 ; Proc. Y r orkshire Geol. Soc. vol. vi. (1879), pp. 40-52. 
7. Erratic Boulders in the Valley of the Calder [1875]. Ibid. vol. vi. Q879), 
pp. 93-100. 
8. The Stems and Roots of Fossil Trees in the Lower Coal-measures at 
Wadsley, near Sheffield [1876]. Ibid. vol. vi. (1879), p. 79. 
9. Unconformability of the Permian Limestone to the Red Rocks west of its 
Escarpment in Central Yorkshire [1877]. Ibid. vol. vi. (1879), pp. 280- 
308. 
10. Notes on Pleurodus affinis, sp. ined., Agassiz, and description of three 
spines of Cestracionts from the Lower Coal-measures [1878]. Quart. 
Jour. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxv. (1879), pp. 181-187. 
11. On Ostracaeanthus dilatatus, gen. et. sp. nov. . a Fossil Fish from the 
Coal-measures S.E. of Halifax, in Yorkshire. Brit. Assoc. Rep. (1879), 
p. 343; Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. vii. (1881), pp. 191-195. 
12. On the source of the Erratic Boulders in the Valley of the River Calder, 
Yorkshire. Geol. Mag., Dec. II. vol. vi. (1879), pp. 313-321; Proc. 
Yorkshire Geol. Soc. vol. vii. (1881), pp. 141-145. 
