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interest, and to the peculiar department of it which he never 
left. His capacity for long walks gave him a great 
advantage. He was tall and powerful, and he had no wish 
to seek society. Indeed, he always spoke in a disparaging 
manner of the usual social intercourse in the middle and 
upper ranks, and delighted in rambling over the county and 
mixing with the men he chanced to meet, studying their 
ways and learning their observations. It was in this way 
he came to take much interest in the scientifically inclined 
working man, and he had a particular pride in speaking 
more highly of him than of the more learned or elaborately 
trained. Indeed, it was his opinion that to be a straight- 
forward man and to observe well, seeing clearly what lay 
before one, was the most pleasant object in life. 
That he himself was fitted for clear and accurate, as well 
as long-continued and patient observation, soon became 
manifest, and we have a list of papers written by him and 
extending over forty-two years. 
He lived at Cheetham Hill (Manchester), attracted by its 
sandy soil, but spent his days at his business, or in reading 
at the Athenaeum, or in attending to the affairs of this 
Society, in which he took a deeper interest than any 
member, if we are to judge by the trouble he took in directing 
its minutest details, so that for many years little was done 
without his will. His attention to business was so great 
that for thirty years he had not been absent from it for a 
fortnight at a time. 
He attended well the meetings of the British Association 
for many years, and at the Geological and Palaeontological 
Societies was well known as a contributor, while his studies 
of the flora and wood of the coal measures have helped 
greatly to make an important era in our knowledge. The 
writer must leave a geologist to sum up his labour and 
define his position as a scientific man. Of the 134 papers 
