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3n flDemoriam. 



HARPER GAYTHORPE, F.S.A.(Scot.). 

 1850-1909. 



(plate IV.). 



As we were going to press with our January issue, the death 

 occurred of Mr. Harper Gaythorpe, of Barro\v-in-h\irness. 

 He was born at Tarporley, in Cheshire, in March 1850, and he 

 will long be remembered for his exertions in connection with 

 the Barrow Field Naturahsts' Society — a Society which owes 

 its present position very largely to Mr. Gaythorpe's energy 

 during the quarter of a century he was connected with it, and 

 of which he was President in 1903-4. He made numerous con- 

 tributions to the archaeology and natural history of the Furness 

 district, and also accomplished much good work in preparing and 

 editing the records of the Barrow Field Club, a volume of nearl}- 

 300 pages having been published by him only a little while l)efore 

 he died. This was noticed in our January number, and we are 

 kindly permitted to reproduce the portrait which there appeared 

 as frontispiece (plate IV). The Furness district and the 

 Barrow Club particularly, have lost a careful investigator, and 

 a true friend. Largely as a result of his exertions, a local 

 museum has recently been formed in Barrow-in-Furness. 



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3n flDcinoriam. 



GEORGE STABLER. 

 1839-1910. 



On January 4th Mr. George Stabler, of Levens, Westmor- 

 land, quietly passed away at the age of three score years and 

 ten. He had been totally blind for the past two years, but was 

 nevertheless quite interested in his favourite hobby— botany ; 

 and though deprived of his sight, his country walks were full 

 of interest to him, and he was able to identify the various 

 birds, etc., by their calls. Mr. Stabler was born at Welburn, 

 near Malton, and went to Levens on his appointment as school- 

 master there, forty \-ears ago. 



He was a life-long friend of Dr. Spruce, and is referred to 

 in Spruce's account of his travels in South America, recently 

 edited by Dr. Russell Wallace, and reviewed in these columns 

 a little while ago. 



igio Feb. i. 



