Sn Memoriam. 
THOMAS STEPHENSON. 
Born 1833, Feb. 12th; died 1916, Feb. 1gth. 


Ir was a distinct advantage to students of National History in 
Yorkshire, that there should have been resident for so many 
years on the coast, in a place like Whitby, a man of the calibre 
and attainments of Mr. Thomas Stephenson, in a position— 

locally as regards his residence in close proximity to the port 
and the fish markets and to the local museum—and mentally 
as regards his qualifications as a naturalist and a gentleman. 
For to this fortunate combination of circumstances, are we 
indebted for the rescue from oblivion of innumerable instances 
of the occurrence of local fishes and birds, and their preservation 
in many instances in the Museum. 
Mr. Stephenson was a good ornithologist, and has been the 
means of placing on record many birds, some indeed as first 
records for Yorkshire. 
But it was more particularly as a keen student of the num- 
erous fishes brought into the port by the fishermen, to whose 

1916 May 1. 
