REMINISCENCES OF A 

 YORKSHIRE NATURALIST 



CHAPTER I 



John Williamson's narrative Maternal grandparents 

 Crawford laboratory Childhood Dame schools 

 Mr. Potter's school Lebberston Mrs. Johnson 

 William Smith Thomas Hinderwell Phillips' " Geo- 

 logy of the Yorkshire Coast " Smith's personality 

 Thornton school Journey to France Life at Bour- 

 bourg. 



THE early history of the families of British crafts- 

 men is rarely preserved, and the only record of my 

 paternal ancestry is a brief autobiographical memo- 

 randum, given to me by my father many years ago. 

 In this he says : 



" The only recollection I have of my grandfather 

 " is that of an old man living in a small cottage in the 

 " village of Fridaythorpe, in East Yorkshire, where 

 " I was once taken by my father to see him. 



" My father was shepherd to some of the large 

 " sheep-farmers in the same district. He was a 



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