Slicppani : Hull's Contribution to Science. 239. 



engraving- of Spence as frontispiece, and my copy (which was 

 a presentation copy to the Holderness Ag-ricultural Society) also 

 has his autog-raph. The work has been several times reprinted, 

 in Eng^land and abroad. In 1809 he commenced writing- scientific 

 papers, and in that year submitted a ' Monog-raph of the British 

 Species of the Genus Choleva' to the Linnaean Society. Some 

 ' Observations on the Disease in Turnips,' termed in Holderness 

 ' Fing-ers and Toes,' were read to the Holderness Ag-ricultural 

 Society in 181 1, and printed at their request in the following- 

 year. This runs into 20 pages. Later, he was president of this 

 Holderness society."^' In 181 1 the ' Rocking-ham ' contained an 

 able article from his pen on the ' Pleasures and Advantages to 

 be Derived from the Establishment of a Botanical Garden at 

 Hull.' Spence died in i860. A fine marble bust by Marachetti 

 is in the Hull Museum, and there is a portrait in the office 

 of Messrs. Blundell, Spence & Co., Beverley Road. 



A contemporary of Spence was Adrian Hardy Haworth^ 

 F.L.S. (1767 to 1833), who also made his mark as a botanist 

 and an entomologist. Like Spence, also, the work for which 

 he will be remembered by scientific men deals with butterflies 

 and moths, and was in four parts. The ' Lepidoptera Britannica ' 

 contains in all about 640 pages.! Haworth was born at Hull 

 of an old and well-connected family which had been for many 

 years engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was articled to a 

 solicitor,; but in consequence of Mr. Frost's death his clerkship 

 was not completed. He then ' retired to Cottingham, where he 

 resided a few years and then married.' He afterwards went to 

 Chelsea, where ' Lepidoptera Britannica' was written. 



About the year 181 2 he resolved to return to his native 

 place, Cottingham, and thither he repaired with the greater 

 part of his collection of natural history objects. During his 

 short stay at that place (for he only resided there about five 

 years) he was principally instrumental in forming and arranging 

 systematically the Botanic Gardens at Hull. The neighbour- 

 hood of London was, however, evidently the field most adapted 



* Other scientific papers of his are : — ''On an Insect which is Occasionally 

 very Injurious to Fruit Trees,' 'Vulgar Errors among- Gardeners respecting 

 Insects being Destroyed by Cold,' 'Observations relative to Dr. Carns's 

 Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood in Insects,' ' Remarks on Planting 

 Trees and Shrubs in Masses of one Species,' and numerous others, printed 

 in the ' Gardeners' Magazine,' the ' Magazine of Natural Historv,' the 

 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society,' etc. 



t The first part was printed in 1803 and the last in 182S. 



+ Mr. Frost, father of the historian. 

 1903 July I. 



