NOTES BY THE LATE REV. J. HAWELL, M.A., F.G.8. 



Extracted from " The Stoke sley and Ingleby Greenhow 

 Magazine," 1887-1902. 



Some time ago, a lady in Stokesley kindly lent me several 

 bound volumes of " The Stokesley and Ingleby Greenhow Parish 

 Magazine," containing many contributions during a series of 

 years, beginning with 1887, from the versatile pen of the late 

 Rev. J. Hawell, M.A., F.G.S., Vicar of Ingleby. 



We are now publishing the greater part of these little essays 

 in our "Proceedings," omitting some of the papers which related 

 to the Lake District, Buxton, etc. 



In these writings we get a glimpse of the many-sided mind of 

 our late friend, whose death was such a loss to the Field Club 

 and to the neighbourhood generally. 



We may say that nothing came amiss to Mr. Hawell in the 

 domain of Nature — animate or inanimate alike, and with his 

 years grew his enthusiasm. 



We might imagine him saying, as Thomas Edward, the 

 Scotch Naturalist, said of himself: "Every living thing 

 ,; that moves or lives, everything that grows, everything created or 

 " formed by the hand or the will of the Omnipotent, has such a 

 " fascinating charm for me, and sends such a thrill of pleasure 

 " through my whole frame, that to describe my feelings is utterly 

 "impossible." 



As a palaeontologist he shone most of all, and was an expert 

 at cataloguing — a thing requiring an immense knowledge of 

 genera and species, the varieties in species being often so minute 

 and perplexing, even to the scientific mind. 



The great facts of nature in which he revelled do but recall the 

 saying of Agassiz, that scientific systems are but translations 

 into human language of the thoughts of the Creator. And 

 so Mr. Hawell always felt in his labour of love, peopling the 

 vast geological ages with forms and organisms (once more almost 

 living to his active imagination). Botany also had a charm for 



