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Sn Memoriam. 
SEconD-LIEUTENANT GEORGE MITCHELL. 
UNFORTUNATELY this great and terrible war is already taking 
toll of the membership of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, 
as it is more seriously of the best and the most physically fit of 
the youth of the nation—and of Europe. In George Mitchell 
our country has lost one of its finest examples of youthful 
manhood, and one who could with nature’s weapons, have 
‘laid out’ any Ger- 
man ever born. Al- 
though only twenty- 
six years of age, he 
was a veritable giant 
in physique, and a 
thorough sportsman 
in every sense of the 
word. He was about 
the finest amateur 
heavy-weight boxer 
in the country, and 
his wrestling was very 
little behind his box- 
ing, and in the West 
Riding was only 
about second to his 
brother Tim. Al- 
though sucha perfect 
exponent or thle 
“noble art of self 
defence’ he was one 
of the most gentle 
and considerate of 
companions. His 
bout with Georges 
Carpentier—the French boxing champion of Europe, although 
it brought Mitchell into notoriety, showed him up in an unfair 
light. Through the services of a mutual friend, he paid for a 
private trial with the champion under the impression that he 
would be able to stand up against him longer than Bombardier 
Wells had done, which he succeeded in doing, but only by a few 
seconds. Unfortunately the press got scent of the match, and 
in a slack time of news they made the most of it. 
For the past three years George Mitchell had attended the 
meetings of the Vertebrate Zoology section of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, where he had taught us much of value and 
of interest concerning the details of falcons and falconry, 
and eighteen months ago he became a life member of the 
. Naturalist, 
