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THOMAS TATE, F.(;.S. 
Among the losses sustained by our Society during recent 
years, none has been more sincerely felt than that of our valued 
friend and co-worker, Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S. For many years 
Mr. Tate was a consistent supporter of our Society, and one of 
its most active workers. He was elected a member in the year 
1875, and, on the appointment of Local Secretaries to assist the 
General Secretary, Mr. Tate became Local Secretary for the 
Bradford District Avith a seat on the Council, retaining this 
position until October, 1894, when he resigned in favour of the 
present Local Secretary, Mr. J. E. Wilson. At the Annual General 
Meeting, held at the Grammar School, Bradford, on November 7th, 
1894, Mr. Tate was elected on the Council to fill the vacancy 
caused by the retirement of Mr. C. Fox-Strangways, who had 
left Yorkshire, and this position he held until his decease. 
Mr. Thomas Tate was a native of Leeds, having been born 
there in 1833. After leaving school, at fourteen years of age, 
he entered the warehouse of Messrs. A. & S. Henry k Co., and 
continued with that firm on their removal to Bradford, remaining 
in their employ until he commenced business for himself in the 
stulf trade, when about thirty years of age. During a period of 
bad trade in Bradford, when many large firms of stuff and wool 
merchants failed, he closed his warehouse and disposed of his stock. 
For many years he had devoted much of his leisure to scientific 
studies, including botany, entomology, and geology, attending 
evening classes for instruction. He was also an early member of 
the Bradford Scientific Association, of which he was Vice-President 
when the first series of Gilchrist lectures w^as given at Bradford. 
He also gave a series of lectures on Geology to the members, and 
conducted several excursions to places in the Bradford basin, with 
the principal geological features of which he had become thoroughly 
acquainted, as well as with those of the upper valley of the Aire. 
He also conducted excursions for the study of pond life, and con- 
