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Obituary — Humphry Sahcey. 
HUMPHRY SALWEY. 
Born 1803. Died 1877. 
Mr. Humphry Salwey, who died on January the 21st, at liis 
residence, The Cliff, Ludlow, was one of the earliest pioneers of 
geological research in the Old Red Sandstone and Silurian districts ; 
and he has formed an important collection of the fossils of the 
counties of Shropshire and Herefordsliire, including many unique 
specimens. He derived liis knowledge almost exclusively from 
Observation, but he did not neglect the recorded observations of 
otliers, and bis broad views and clear thonght were most conspicuously 
displayed when, in the course of a day’s work in the field, he would 
offer some friendly criticism of theories and conclusions which he 
could prove that less practical men had too readily admitted. 
It was thus that Mr. Salwey did much valuable teaching, and not 
a few of bis numerous geological friends will be ready to admit that 
he has given them standpoints from which the vision could penetrate 
the obscurity in which the geology of a district had been involved 
by too hasty generalization. 
Mr. Salwey’s knowledge of the local geology of bis native district 
was such as can only be obtained by life-long labour. Those who 
knew him well have cause to lament the loss of a sincere and warm- 
hearted friend ; but the geologist from afar, to whom he was always 
ready to extend a cordial welcome, will sustain a loss which cannot 
easily be replaced — that of an experienced and sound expositor of 
the typical Ludlow district. It was here that he delighted to 
welcome bis fellow-workers, and to offer to them bis open and un- 
assuming hospitality ; and the cordial welcome with which he and 
bis family received the members of the Geologists’ Association at 
The Cliff on the occasion of their visit to Ludlow in 1872, will ever 
be gratefully remembered by those who were present, several of 
whom have kept. up the acquaintance then for the first time formed, 
and have revisited more than once the beautiful neighbourhood, 
replete with geological interest, then for the first time seen. 
Mr. Salwey was one of the founders of the Ludlow Museum, 
which he has enriched with many valuable geological specimens. 
He has discovered several new species of fossils, principally col- 
lected in the Old Red Sandstone and the Ludlow Rocks, and bis 
name as a palaeozoic geologist is perpetuated in several species ; 1 but 
he was not a writer, and, excepting in a few addresses to the Field 
Clubs of the neighbouring counties, bis extensive knowledge of the 
geology of bis district now, alas ! lives only in the memory of those 
to whom he was so ready to impart it, or is diffused in their 
writings. — J. H. 
1 Zenaspie Salwey i, Egerton ; Necrogammarus Salweyi, H. Woodward; and 
Monographie Salweyi, Hopkinson. 
