In Memoricvji — William Cudworth. i6i 



He was pre-eminently a field-naturalist, and was the happy 

 combination of one who took interest in all the objects seen in 

 the country-side and of a specialist, his particular field of 

 research being- the family Limnceido', which he studied and 

 collected throughout his whole career, and of which he accumu- 

 lated a very extensive and complete collection. 



As a man, his sturdy, well-knit, and thickset frame, with 

 close-trimmed hair and full beard, and a fine round open 

 countenance beaming with smiles, showing a genial and hearty 

 disposition, was always a welcome sight to his friends, and his 

 peculiarly and inimitable subtle, dry, and yet inoffensive 

 humourous remarks always added a spice of genial interest 

 to a naturalists' discussion. 



He was twice married, and leaves children of two families, 

 one much older than the other. His first wife died in 1891, a 

 year in which he took up his abode at Crossgates, in the 

 immediate eastern outskirts of Leeds. 



For some time before his death he had been visibly failing 

 in health. He was subject to heart weakness, which interfered 

 much with his work and his recreation alike, and was also sub- 

 ject to attacks of hemiplegia, to one of which he succumbed on 

 the 28th of January this year. He was out collecting shells 

 the day before, and was examining his captures during the 

 day (Jan. 21st) on which he had the fatal stroke to which he 

 succunibed a week later. — R. 



WILLIAM CUDWORTH. 

 1 830- 1 906. 



On March 20th the Bradford Naturalists and ^Antiquaries lost 

 one of their most enthusiastic members, William Cudworth, 

 who died at the ripe age of seventy-five. Mr. Cudworth had 

 been ailing for some time, and he was in anything but robust 

 health when he attended the recent annual meeting- of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Bradford, where many of us 

 saw him for the last time. 



Whilst on the staff of the Bnid/uni Observer, Mr. Cudworth 

 developed a taste for Antiquarian reseach, and he subsequently 

 published a number of books, &c., the most important being 

 the ' Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, the York- 

 shire Mathematician and Astronomer,' (1889). He also wrote 



1906 May I. 



