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Su aMemoriam. 
JOHN HARRISON, FLEES: 
By the death of John Harrison, a native of Barnsley, which 
occurred July 11th, Yorkshire has lost one of its principal 
lepidopterists. At an early period he took up the study of 
Natural History, and along with four other of his fellow 
townsmen, three of whom sti!l survive, founded the Barnsley 
Naturalists’ Society, Feb. 4th, 1867. As Secretary of the new 
society he worked hard to establish it on a sound footing, and 
lived to see it with a membership roll such as few had dared to 
hope for. Although he had ceased to be a member several 
years before his death, he had given evidences of a continued 
kindly interest in its prosperity. His inclinations led him to 
take up the study of Lepidoptera during the later years of his life, 
more particularly to the Micros. A reference to Mr. Porritt’s 
‘List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera’ will show how valuable were 
his contributions to that work. Always of a modest and self- 
depreciating cast of mind, it might almost be said that he 
rarely sought the society of his fellows; at any rate he never 
pressed himself upon them. At the same time he was ever 
ready to assist his brother entomologists, not forgetting those 
who were studying other orders than Lepidoptera. Thus on 
one occasion he brought the writer several specimens of an 
insect which his experienced eye recognised as an uncommon 
species. It proved to be the rare Longicorn Beetle Graczlza 
minuta. He was elected a F.E.S., 3rd April, 1889, and 
became a frequent exhibitor at the meetings of the society. 
His illness was of short duration, less than a week in fact, and 
was due to pleurisy and pneumonia. He died in his 74th year, 
and was interred in the Barnsley Cemetery, July 15th, 1907. 
E.G.-B. 
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Note on a blackbird’s nest.—On June 13th my gardener 
shot a hen blackbird as she flew from her nest, and on going 
to the place shortly afterwards found the nest tenanted by a 
male thrush, who sat out the blackbird’s eggs until they were 
hatched, about two days later. Unfortunately the young birds 
died on the cold wet night of Sunday 23rd. The lining of the 
nest was partly that of the blackbird and part the mud lining 
of the thrush.—T. R. CLAPHAM, Austwick Hall, Lancaster. 
Naturalist, 
