316 Sectional Officers’ Reports. 
The Chiff-chaff first heard April 12th, Swallow first seen 
April 18th, Nightingale April 23rd (more pairs than usual this 
year), and Cuckoo April 26th. 
The Redwing had arrived in the district by October 1gth, 
the Hooded Crow by October 2oth. 
It may here be mentioned that a remarkable irruption of 
the Little Auk, M. alle, visited the County (both coast and inland) 
during January and February, 1912, but this wiil be dealt with 
more fully in the next report. 
An immature example of the Iceland Falcon, F. Islandus, 
shot at Saxilby in December, 1900, has just been presented to 
the Lincoln Museum. 
CANON W. FOWLER. 
On Thursday, the 7th of March, the fourth President of the 
Union, and our oldest and most indefatigable Lincolnshire 
botanist, passed to his rest in his native village of Winterton: 
Canon Fowler was one of the sons of the late Joseph Fowler, 
grandson of the antiquary. He had just entered on his 78th 
year. He was for 47 years vicar of Liversedge, and a canon of 
Wakefield Cathedral. His late parishioners were then 
erecting a beautiful chancel screen in the parish church asa 
token of their united respect and esteem, and as a small recogni- 
tion of his devoted services. The finest material monument of 
his life’s work is the new church in Liversedge ; but his truest 
memorials are the memories in the hearts of the generations he 
ministered to. Kindly, genial and ever sympathetic, interested 
in a wide range of subjects, and in science generally, botany 
especially, where shall we find another master and teacher like 
the Canon? Yet when all is said, mankind were his special 
study and delight, and in the sorrow of his wide circle of friends 
and acquaintances his true merit as a man appears, 
E. A. W-P. 
