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Sn aDemoriam. 
Tue hand of Death has recently reduced the ranks of Yorkshire 
naturalists in a way which is surely unprecedented. For some 
time we have, month by month, recorded the loss of prominent _ 
workers. We have now to deplore the departure from our 
midst of the following, who were connected with the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union :— 
THOMAS BUNKER. 
The death of Thomas Bunker at the age of 85 removes from 
our midst one of the last of the naturalists of the old type. 
Years ago he was a familiar figure at the field meetings of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, and was not ashamed of his 
large butterfly-net and his vasculum. He was equally interested 
in bird, plant or insect, and was ever ready to impart his 
knowledge to anyone interested ; many Yorkshire naturalists 
to-day will remember with pleasure the interest shewn in their 
work and the encouragement given by Mr. Bunker. 
A native of Bedfordshire, he first went to Goole as head- 
master of the National schools ; he then had a private school ; 
later he was a collector of taxes, but retired about twenty-five 
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