The Presidents of the 
Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. 
CANON FOWLER, M.A., D.Se., F.L.S., F.E.S. 
An Appreciation. 
By. Rev. A: Thornley, M.A., F.L.S., F.ES. 
I think it was in 1&go, that I first met Canon Fowler. It 
came about in this way, I had been a few years in a country 
parish, and was much interested in the life round about me. It 
_ seemed a good opportunity for learning something about the 
animals, birds and insects which frequented my Parish. I knew 
something of these things, but not enough to satisfy my aspirations. 
1 wrote to the Editor of the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 
asking him to advise me on the best book on beetles. Singularly 
enough I got a letter in reply from the Rev. W. W. Fowler, 
_ Headmaster of the Grammar School, Lincoln, not only advising 
books, but inviting me to go over and see him. As the distance 
between us was not very great I went, and thus met for the 
first time, one whose kindness, keenness and generosity have 
been impressed upon me only the more deeply by the lapse of 
time. My experience has been that of many others ; and it would 
be impossible to say how many rising Entomologists have owed 
any success to which they have attained to Canon Fowler’s 
help and encouragement. His life is many sided, and it would 
be impossible in a short notice like this to say much of his work 
-asa Schoolmaster or a Clergyman. What I have to say will be 
