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" The Naturalist " for August, 1901, gives an obituary notice 

 in which it says " The news of the recent death of the Rev. 

 John Hawell, at the comparatively early age of 49, will come as 

 a sad surprise to all naturalists throughout the country, so many 

 of whom were his personal friends. Yorkshiremen will par- 

 ticularly mourn his loss, whilst his own parishoners of Ingleby 

 Greenhow have lost a Vicar to whom they looked for advice and 

 help during the last 21 years. 



To the Yorkshire Naturalists Union Mr. Hawell was of great 

 assistance, and his place will be exceedingly difficult to fill. He 

 was President of the Geological Section, Divisional Secretary for 

 N.E. Yorks, and served on several committees. Whatever he 

 undertook to do he did promptly and well. The excursions which 

 he organised in his district were always most successful. 



He was largely instrumental in bringing the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club into its present flourishing condition. 

 Of this Society he was President in 1891, 1895-6, and 1903-1. 

 Under his editorship the Cleveland Club has issued valuable 

 Annual Proceedings since 1895, which contain contributions to 

 the natural history, &c, of the Cleveland area. In these 

 Proceedings Mr. Hawell himself published papers dealing with 

 Mollusca, Geology, Physiography, &c, of N.E. Yorks. The 

 Yorkshire Geological Society is also indebted to him for papers 

 on geology and paloeontology. Under the latter head special 

 mentionniight be made of his ' Description of Two New Species 

 of Gasteropoda from the Upper Lias of Yorkshire' (1897). 



To ' The Naturalist ' Mr. Hawell was a frequent contributor 

 and so recently as August last a paper appeared from his pen 

 dealing with the plant remains which he had found in the Oolitic 

 beds of North Cleveland. In this paper he gave an account of 

 the last piece of scientific work he was permitted to accomplish, 

 his subsequent illness preventing him pursuing a work which to 

 him was a pleasure and to science a profit. In addition to the 

 natural sciences Mr. Hawell was well acquainted with the 

 antiquities, folk-lore, &c, of his neighbourhood." 



Our thanks are due to the Editor of the "Naturalist " for kind 

 permission to use the block from which the portrait has been 

 printed, also to Mr. Baker Hudson, Curator of the Middlesbrough 

 Free Library, for the extract from Mr. Hawell's Will which we 

 have appended, so far as it relates to the Dorman Memorial 

 Museum. 



March, 1905. J. C. FOWLER. 



