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BY-GONE HULL NATURALISTS. 
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AprIAN Harpy Haworth, F.L.S., &c. (1767-1833). 
N continuing: this series of By-gone Hull Naturalists,* 
I am pleased to bring before our members a few 
notes on the life and work of the author of a well- 
known work, ‘‘ Lepidoptera Britannica.”+ It is indeed a 
privilege to be able to include the writer of so valuable 
and well known a work as this in our series of former 
naturalists. Adrian Hardy Haworth ‘‘ was born at Hull, of 
an old and well-connected family, which had been many 
years in mercantile pursuits, and where he was articled 
to a Solicitor (Mr. Frost), but with whom, in consequence 
of death, he did not complete his clerkship.” He then 
“retired to Cottingham, where he resided a few years, and 
then married. At this village, in the neighbourhood of his 
native town, he commenced his arduous career, at once 
embracing the sciences of entomology, ornithology, and 
botany. Shortly after this he changed his residence to 
Little Chelsea, near London, where he wrote the Lepidoptera 
Britannica, and successfully cultivated all the plants at that 
time known in the kingdom ; gratuitiously and freely obtain- 
ing them from the Royal Gardens at Kew, and from the 
most celebrated nurserymen.” 
About the year 1812 he resolved to return to his native 
place, Cottingham, and thither he repaired with the greater 
part of his collection of natural history objects. During 
his short stay at that place (for he only resided there about 
five years) he was principally instrumental in forming, and 
arranging systematically, the Botanic Gardens at Hull. 
The neighbourhood of London was, however, evidently the 
field most adapted to a mind so ardently endued with the love 
of scientific pursuits; accordingly he soon again left his 
native county, and resided at Chelsea till August 24th, 1833, 
the date of his death. He died from cholera.f 
* For the first of this series, see Trans. Hull Sci. and F. Nat. Club, 
Vol. I., Part 3, pp. 105-114, ‘‘George Norman, 1823-1882.” 
+ In Four volumes, the first of which was published in 1803, the 
second in 1809, the third in 1811, and the fourth, with index (in all about 
640 pages) in 1828. 
+ Some interesting references to Haworth occur in a ‘Memoir of the 
late John Scales,” by Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. (Trans. Norf. and 
Norwich Nat. Soc., 1885, pp. 81-119). Scales was a nephew of Haworth. 
