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IX :\rEMORIAM- 
-HENRY CULPIN 
and Selb}'. Fossils new to science and many additional zones were 
discovered, so that our knowledge of the fauna and flora of the York- 
shire Coal Measures was considerably extended. By means of this 
patiently collected knowledge he foretold the results of coal explorations, 
much to the astonishment of the mining engineers, who frequently 
appealed to him for help, and who always received a generous response. 
Only a fraction of his work was published, but enough to show 
that with a longer lease of life and less exacting official work, he would 
have produced a philosophical account of the history of the Coal 
Measures of his district. His contributed papers were fledglings, but 
they possessed strong wings. 
W. Gibson. 
July 13th, 1918. 
[A list of his published papers appeared in The Naturalist for 1913.] 
