BYE-GCONE *HULE NATURALISTS. 
I.—GeEorGE Norman (1823-1882). 
(Liead June 20, 1900). 
O such an extent has the study of nature developed 
in recent years, that it is an utter impossibility for any 
one individual to have even a general knowledge of 
the various branches of science included in the somewhat 
vague term ‘“‘ Natural History.”’ The result of the continual 
investigations by a whole army of workers is that each section 
receives more and more attention, and now-a-days a whole 
lifetime can well be devoted to the study of one small branch 
of one of these sections, and even then the subject will not be 
exhausted. The introduction of the microscope and of im- 
proved methods of microscopic research has been the means 
of a great deal more attention being paid to the minute 
structures of plants and animals than was formerly the case; 
and I fear in these present busy times there is a tendency on 
the part of most.of us to devote our energies too much to the 
subject in which we are particularly interested to the neglect 
of all others. The consequence is that in many matters which 
should be of common knowledge to members of a Naturalists’ 
Club, we frequently betray our ignorance. 
Too often we hear that the all-round “‘ Field Naturalist ”’ 
is a ‘‘species’’ almost extinct. But this is not the case. We 
number amongst our members not a few who, on a country 
ramble, are able to identify with equal facility the birds or 
insects, plants or fossils, met with on the way. And this is 
as it should be. Though it has been frequently urged that 
every member of this club should endeavour to know ‘ every- 
thing of something,” yet it is equally desirable that he should 
know ‘‘something of everything.’’ But if there is so little 
opportunity for us to see and learn what our fellow workers 
in other directions are now doing, what chance is there of con- 
sidering what has been accomplished by naturalists of previous 
generations ? 
There have been at Hull at no distant date naturalists and 
scientific men of great ability. Some of these have accom- 
* Some of these were referred to in a paper read to us on August g, 
1899, by Mr. W. G. B. Page, entitled ‘*Some Hull Naturalists,’’ which 
paper really first suggested to me the preparation of the following notes. 
It included short accounts of the work of Adrian Hardy Haworth, F.L.S., 
Peter William Watson, F.L.S., Robert Harrison, George Norman, and 
William Spence, F.R.S., F.L.S. We hope to publish accounts of the 
work of some of these in subsequent issues of our Transactions. 
