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by his active and enthusiastic interest in it, soon inarle it a large and prosperous 

 Society. For a considerable period, now nearly forty years ago, ho was its Presi- 

 dent, and the life and vigour he put into it are well remembered by those of its 

 members who still survive. He used to take the lead in the inauguration of large 

 and successful exhibitions of natural history specimens, of a fortnightly duration in 

 one of the then largest halls in the town. 



At that time Beaumont was as keen an Ornithologist as he was a Lejiidopterist 

 and his fine collection of British birds was known far and wide, as well as his collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera which contained many valuable species. 



Nothing could exceed the generosity of Beaumont in the matter of his dupli- 

 cates. Tt was his delight to spread open his boxes before his friends, and absolutely 

 make them take out everything they wanted ; whilst his scorn for the too prevalent 

 system of bargaining with duplicates, was intense. Nor can the writer forget the 

 happy days long ago when Beaumont used repeatedly to drive him (then little more 

 than a schoolboy) for an afternoon's collecting in the woods at Storthes Hall, nor 

 the enjoyable repasts at the Inn near by, when the day's work was over. 



On the removal of Beaumont from Honley, his collections were disposed of, 

 with the exception of a few of the rarities from each which he retained. The birds 

 now form the chief portion of the beautiful collection in the Museum of the 

 Technical College, Huddersfield. 



After a prolonged visit with his wife to Mr. and Mrs. Stainton at Mounts- 

 field, he settled in 1884 near his friend's residence at Lewishain. Beaumont's zeal 

 for collecting soon again impelled him to active field work, but his energies were 

 now directed to several of what have been termed the "neglected orders of insects." 

 He did splendid work among the Coleoptera, Utpnenoptera, Neuroptera and 

 Diptera, repeatedly finding species new to the British List, and in some cases new 

 to Science. Perhaps his favourite locality of late years was the lovely district of 

 Oxshott in Surrey, where he detected as new to Britain the interesting lace-wing 

 fly, Chrysopa dorsalis, and we believe several species of Rymenoptera. He seemed 

 never tired of collecting and setting his captures, and up to the time of his death, 

 his setting of the most minute insects was a marvel of neatness. But the naming of 

 his captures was always irksome to him ; he usually sent his doubtful species to 

 specialists, often to their advantage, as they fi-equently were allowed to retain the 

 specimens of even new species, if there happened to be more than one of each. In 

 1885 Beaumont, whilst stripping off bark searching for beetles, at Lewisham, 

 happened to come across the then rare Oclinenheimeria vacculella, and afterwards 

 found that the moth was very plentiful under bark in the district. He used to 

 relate with great glee the story of his introduction of Mr. Stainton to the species. 

 Calling on Mr. Stainton at Mountsfield to acquaint him with his find, Beaumont told 

 him he could almost guarantee to find the moth in his (Mr. Stainton's) own 

 grounds. Mr. Stainton was incredulous, but on Mr. Beaumont's invitation he 

 walked into the garden with a supply of boxes. Mr. Beaumont very soon found 

 for him the insect in plenty, and by the time they had got round the grounds 

 Mr. Stainton had not only filled his boxes with a " Micro " he had never even 

 suspected to occur there, but had been obliged to transgress one of his own favourite 

 sayings, which was, " never put more than one moth in a chip box," for numbers of 

 his boxes contained two apiece ! 



