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Haworth had a wonderful collection of all manner of 
natural history specimens, including crustacea, radiata, 
coralline, fishes, about twenty thousand dried plants, and 
forty thousand insects. These were sold at his death, and 
several eventually found their way to the British Museum, 
and a Museum at Oxford. ‘‘Among the entomological 
objects were presumed to be nearly eighteen hundred of 
the species [? specimens] of the Linnen genus Papilio, 
including the only perfect specimen known to exist of 
Homerus, also Panthous, Priamus, Perseus, &c., together 
with a Stylops Militte. Mr. Haworth was the first fortunate 
captor of this singularly rare insect, taken at Little Chelsea 
about the year 1797, being the first specimen presumed to be 
known; since that time half a dozen have been taken. This 
is a most singular parasitical insect, which in a larval state 
fixes itself under the abdominal rings of a bee, Militte 
nigroenea.”* 
Haworth was honoured by having a genus of plants 
named after him (Haworthia, allied to the species A/oé), and 
by the naming of the species Mesembryanthemum Haworthit. 
In entomology his name will be ever remembered by Haworth’s 
Minor (Celena Haworthiz), and others. 
Between 1814 and 1817 Haworth wrote a lengthy poem, 
in 24 cantos, entitled ‘‘ Cottingham,” part of which’ was 
printed, and with a quotation from this I must close my 
notes. Twenty-four pages were in the possession of the late 
Col. Haworth Booth, but I understand from Mr. Boyle 
that there are at least 116 pages in existence. The poem 
professes to be a history from the earliest times, and refers 
inter alia to other items of more general interest. The 
following lines refer to the nature of the land in the vicinity 
of Newland :— 
Our Cottingham well penn’d its folds 
Near the fair sides of Yorkshire's rising wolds, 
With lowlands deluged by the Humber wide, 
Its ‘‘ New-land’’ newly risen through the tide ! 
Whose westly-southern fields, still call’d Salt-Ings, 
Evince the root from whence that sa/t name springs. 
Whose Igglemire, once ‘‘ Ings Mere,’’ means a lake 
In days of yore, of boist'rous Humber’s make. 
Twice hath the Humber (if the muse sees right) 
Usurp’d all ‘‘ Newland”’ in his watery might - 
O’erspreading all—a wet continual night. 
A little further on in the poem Haworth’s remarks in 
* Faulkner's History of Chelsea, 1829, p. 12. 
