In Memoriam : John Gardner, F.E.S. 373 



Naturalists' Union published a very large and thorough 

 ' Flora of West Yorkshire,' which Mr. Lees had written with 

 the aid of many leading botanical observers in the county. 

 The work at the time was regarded as the best of its type 

 which had been published in England, and a further volume 

 bringing its record up to date, and making many suggestive 

 comments on natural history, was announced before the war, 

 but has never been published. In recognition of his services 

 to science he was elected as an honorary member of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union. In 1892 he also wrote an 'Outline 

 Flora of Lincolnshire.' He was for many years secretary and 

 recorder for the Botanical Record Club of England, and he has 

 contributed local floras for several of the Dales of Yorkshire 

 to various local publications. An enormous collection of 

 about 25,000 specimens of English wild plants, which he 

 accumulated during his botanical wanderings, was purchased 

 nearly twenty years ago by the Bradford Corporation, and it 

 is now in the Cartwright Hall, while his library of floras and 

 other botanical works is in the Bradford Free Library, and is 

 separately catalogued. 



Although he pursued particularly systematic botany, he 

 was by no means without a keen appreciation for the more 

 poetic side of his subject, and he was a frequent contributor 

 of short poems to various publicatons. 



JOHN GARDNER, F.E.S. 



(1841-1921) 



Born at Egglestone, in Upper Teesdale, December 28th, 

 1841 ; died at his residence, Laurel Lodge, Hart, near Hartle- 

 pool, on July 2ist last, in his eightieth year ; came to reside 

 at Hartlepool at an early period, where he subsequently 

 carried on business as a timber merchant. He became a 

 member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1885, and a 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1890. 



By the death of John Gardner, one of the best type of 

 naturalists has gone from us ; while interested in many groups, 

 he will be best remembered for his work among the Lepi- 

 doptera and Coleoptera. No entomologist in the North of 

 England since the time of the well-known John Sang has 

 done more to further the knowledge of the' species habiting 

 the county of Durham, and more especially the neighbour- 

 hood of Hartlepool, in w^hich district, with the exception 

 of occasional visits to his native country, Egglestone 

 and Upper Teesdale, he did practically the whole of his col- 

 lecting. He was a collector in the best sense of the word, 

 in that he studied the life history and habits of the insects, 



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