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nn his art which he loved so well, and enriched so much, when 

 o the ve V day of his death he said « I should like to paint and 

 mint for seventeen thousand years." And like this trreat artist 

 Sir Hawdlhada keen sense of the ridiculous and a fund of 

 humour ; no one enjoyed a joke more than he did-, 



Mr Hawell went up to London to be present at Burlington 

 Hon e onlhe occasion when Mr. P. F. Kendall read his remark- 

 able paper on ^ system of glacier-lakes ^e«™« 

 Tnnnnrv 8th 1902. In the discussion, Mr. Hawell sam sou 

 he S accompanied the author in very many of bis excursions 

 t th faevffl districts; he had wandered with him through 

 liVdrvv^eys and assisted him through his boring operations. 

 Howelr conv ncing the author's excellent presentation of his 

 con Wis and ^evidence on which they were based had been 

 the evidence in the field were still more strikingly so. He had 

 l m el S^led in the district for the last 22 year, and during 

 nearly the whole of that time had paid special attention to its 

 facial seoW; but very many of the problems which presented 

 • themselves were insoluble, until the author came down and 

 brew a flood of light upon them. He regarded the ^ reading * 

 this paper as making an extremely important advance in our 

 knowledge of glacial geology." 



With regard to the boring operation J ^ j|J^*° ^ 



Hawell used to relate how he amused the Fellow s v, ltti ms 

 Eous description of what happened on one particular boring 

 ludicious aescripi o Mr . Kendall had put down one or 



and Mr. Kendall sprawled on his nose, in fact h e went down 

 down down, and just as he was disappearing Mr. Hawell pullea 



SnbricVe Professor, he asked him how long ago it was since 

 £e 3s we living organisms J He paused , ruminated ^nd 

 then said, « Fifty million years." A well\nown Irish g"*^ 

 who was nresent nearly jumped out of his seat Ocli, sure, 

 S°s tliraoouTliethinVp-tical ! I've got a man who won 

 pay bis rent, tell me how to get rid of him. Mr Ha* en 

 enjoyed the joke thoroughly, as we know ^ would He ^ « a 

 good guide and little escaped his .^,^'.^^3 

 not like another well-known geologist, the late W T. Avehne 

 whose silent demeanour passed m a proverb In JheTOmj 

 as he passed a crag of rock, he tapped it with his ham me and 

 remarked "grits." In the evening on the way homewards he 



