Sn 2BWemoriam. 
CHARLES SMETHURST. 
‘THE year 1892 opened disastrously for the naturalists of Leeds, for 
on the 1st day of January death put an end to the life and the 
sufferings of Charles Smethurst. He was born at Horsforth, near 
Leeds, and, being sent to work at the early age of six years, had no 
‘opportunity of securing even the most elementary education, until 
dater in life, when he acquired a knowledge of reading and writing. 
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As an all-round field naturalist he had few equals, having a 
practical acquaintance with plants, shells, birds, insects, spiders, etc., 
in fact, nothing in the fields or woods escaped his keen eye, but 
being of a retiring disposition, none, except his most intimate friends, 
knew of the stores of information he possessed on these subjects. 
May 1892, K 
