" Coming events cast their shadows before them." This was 

 verified in the case of Mr. Hawell; even as a small boy he began 

 a museum — many collections of various things — labelling them 

 in a scientific manner; with his growth grew the dominating 

 passion of his life, and it developed at Oxford where he made the 

 acquaintance of scientific friends and naturally went out in 

 Natural Science, when he took his degree in 1878. Amongst 

 others he had the privilege of the friendship of the late Sir 

 Joseph Prestwich, in whose "Life and Letters by his Wife" 

 we read: — "Another student with whom he kept in touch 

 was the Eev. John Hawell, of Ingleby Vicarage, 

 Northallerton, whom he encouraged to persevere in his work 

 among the boulders of Yorkshire. About a year ago the writer 

 of this memoir received a letter from Mr. Hawell saying ' The 

 one (letter) written to me when I was in the Eadcliffe Infirmary 

 suffering from an attack of diphtheria, to which I fell a victim 

 while undergoing examination for the Burdett-Coutts Scholar- 

 ship, particularly illustrates the kindness of his disposition, of 

 which I have so vivid and reverent a recollection.' " 



He was an indefatigable worker and never lost a moment, it is 

 always more satisfactory to wear out than to rust out, and 

 certainly Mr. Hawell far outdid his strength by physical and 

 mental work, rarely going to bed before the early morning had 

 come; arduously examining, cataloguing and arranging fossils, 

 almost every evening of his life, when his day's work was over; 

 think for a moment of the work entailed by cataloguing 20,000 

 specimens. It was indeed the work of a laborious life. Very 

 charming descriptions remain, fortunately, of a few of his 

 geological and antiquarian excursions. Mr. Hawell 's favourite 

 departments in the grand science of geology were "Paleontology" 

 and "Glaciation." Sad to say his career was cut short by a 

 sudden and fatal illness just when his knowledge was ripening 

 and he was becoming a power in the neighbourhood and the 

 scientific world at large — his correspondence being very wide, 

 extending especially over France, Germany, Italy, and other 

 countries, and many were the letters and boxes of fossils which 

 crossed the English Channel. "He did [want to live a little 

 longer" in a world which he found so very interesting and felt 

 it very hard to be taken away just as his knowledge was bearing 

 fruit. He was a type of the many thousands of cultured and 

 learned men who have held the Livings in the Anglican Church 

 for almost countless generations, men who were adapted for the 

 positions which they held and into which they seemed to float in a 

 most natural way. Unfortunately this cultured class is passing 

 away to be replaced, as we fear, by mere seminarists; and great 



