In Memoriam : W. GreenweU, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 105 



* The Canon,' as he was popularly known, was a collector 

 of extraordinary ability ; and what with purse and remarkable 

 powers of persuasion, his contemporaries had little chance of 

 success if he was in the field. 



While, unquestionably, archaeological science owes much 

 to his researches; and while a large number of specimens were 

 preserved by his labours which otherwise might never have been 

 known, and while, of course, he had the right of disposing of 

 his collections in the way he considered best, it must be ad- 

 mitted that his method was at times a little disconcerting to 

 students. For instance, we believe his collections from the 

 barrows, mostly in Yorkshire, were disposed of in different 

 ways. The pottery he presented to the British Museum, 

 where, as the ' GreenweU Collection ' it is well known ; Dr. 

 Sturge, then in Nice, bought his stone implements for ,(1,200 ; 

 the human skulls were given to Oxford, but the bronze and 

 gold implements he kept at Durham till 1908, when they were 

 sold to Mr. Pierpont Morgan, who, fortunately for British 

 antiquaries, placed them in the British Museum. We must 

 admit that the method adopted by a fellow member in the 

 same field, the late J. R. Mortimer, of keeping all the remains 

 from a particular barrow together, commends itself to us. 



In 1856 Canon GreenweU travelled extensively in Greece, 

 and afterwards formed an unusually large and valuable 

 collection of ancient Greek ccins. This was eventually sold 

 to a Sussex gentleman, and is now in Boston, U.S.A. 



So long ago as 1846, he helped to promote the Tynesiue 

 Naturalists' Field Club, one of 01 r earliest natural history 

 societies. In 186?, he joined the council of the Durham 

 Archaeological Society, then recently established. He was 

 elected President in 1865, and we believe he held that office 

 every subsequent year until his deith. He took a keen interest 

 in the Cathedral at Durham, particularly with regard to the 

 library, etc. ; and it is largely due to his zeal that many acts 

 of vandalism were prevented. He contributed some valuable 

 volumes to the Surtees Society's publications, and in many 

 ways has made his busy life ' worth while.' This is all the more 

 remarkable when it is borne in mind that he was forty before 

 he took any real interest in prehistoric antiquities. 



To anglers, Canon GreenweU was well known — over half a 

 century ago he ' invented ' an artificial fly, ' Greenwrll's Glory,' 

 which is known to all fly-fishermen. He also was responsible 

 for a salmon-fly which bears his name. 



Though delicate in his youth. Canon GreenweU attained 

 an age rarely reached in these times. He retained all his 

 faculties to the end — even during 1917 devoting several days 

 to his favourite pastime of angling. 



Canon GreenweU is almost the last in the list of our giants 



1918 Mar. 1. 



