In Memoritam— Wilson Hemingway. 127 
Acaridae contributed to its variety. The writer has pleasant 
memories of many happy hours spent with his old friend in the 
field and in his library surrounded by the many interesting 
natural objects with which it abounded. Though old when 
years are counted, his heart was ever young, his enthusiasm 
for nature study never waned. Although seventy-one when he 
retired from practice, and removed from Wath to Grange, 
he soon discovered kindred spirits there, with the result that 
the Grange Natural History Society was founded. Of this 
society he was the Secretary and prime mover. His delight 
on discovering Anchomenus marginatus in abundance at Grange 
was intense, his letters describing his captures abounding with 
careful details of first-hand observations. On December 3rd 
he lectured before the Grange Society on ‘ Incidents in an event- 
ful life,’ and a few hours later took a chill, which developed into 
pneumonia, and terminated fatally on the evening of the 31st. 
Thus at the ripe old age of eighty-one, came to an end a life 
of usefulness and many-sidedness. Here we are mainly con- 
cerned with the natural history side of his career, but it would 
be misleading to infer that this was the extent of his usefulness. 
He was all that we have said and more, indeed it is difficult 
to write with becoming restraint of the gap which the loss of 
our old friend has made in the lives of those who were privileged 
to enjoy his intimate friendship. Ever ready to take an intelli- 
gent and active part in any public or private work which com- 
mended itself to him, his place will be difficult to fill. 
He was interred in the cemetery at Wath on January 4th. 
E.G. B: 
Serene: cole 
WILSON HEMINGWAY. 
It is with deep regret we have to announce the death of Mr. 
Wilson Hemingway of Dewsbury. Mr. Hemingway had been 
a member of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union since 1893, and 
for long before that date as an Associate through his member- 
ship of the now defunct Dewsbury Naturalists’ Society. Besides 
taking a great interest in the work of the Union at its meetings 
and excursions, which he often attended, he occupied a foremost 
place in connection with other Literary and Educational Institu- 
tions. He was one of the first members of the Bronté Society 
as well as the Dewsbury Naturalists’ Society, and a good sup- 
porter of the present Technical School and of its forerunner the 
old Mechanics’ Institution. 
1907 March tr. 
