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3n nDemoriam. 



WILLIAM NELSON. 

 Born November gth^ jSj^, Died January 28tli, igo6. 



By the death of WiUiam Nelson, which took place at his 

 residence at Crossgates, near Leeds, Yorkshire naturalists 

 have lost a friend and companion — one of that sturdy band 

 of working'-man naturalists, who, b}- their unwearying" activity 



William Nelson. 



and enthusiasm in the field, and by the influence of their personal 

 example, have done so much to place, and to keep, the North of 

 Eng-land in the fore-front of scientific research, and who — them- 

 selves the ' hewers of wood and drawers of water ' (as he himself 

 so happily put it) — have contributed larg'ely to the accumulation 

 of the stores of facts upon which the more venturesome are able 



1906 May I. 



