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3>n ^Tcmoriam. 



WILLIAM CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON, 



LL.D., F.R.S. 



B. 24TH November, 1816 ; D. 23RD June, 1895. 



The first loss from the list of distinguished men of science which 

 constitutes the roll of vice presidents of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union took place on the 23rd June, 1895, when William Crawford 

 Williamson passed peacefully away at his own house at Clapham 



Common. 



Our Union has suffered a severe blow, and our great Yorkshire 

 naturalist will be missed wherever natural history, and especially 

 wherever paleobotany is studied, for as a pioneer, an original thinker, 

 and indeed the founder of a school, he was known and valued at home, 





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on the continent of Europe, in our distant colonies, and in the 

 United States. Numerous tributes to his worth and genius have 



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abroad. 



Our distinguished 



lamented vice-president was born at 



Scarborough on the 24th November, 181 6. His father was 

 John Williamson, of Scarborough, of whom he was wont to speak 

 in terms of high respect and affection, and whose memory he has 

 filially embalmed in the delightful memoir of him published in the 

 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 

 (new sen, vol. viii, part iii, pp. 295-313), 1894. A gardener by 



Jan. 1896, 



