Memoriam—Henry Bendelack Hewetson. 
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the Leeds Naturalists’ Club, of which latter he was four 
times President. It is not now our purpose to write of his 
distinguished position in the medical world, and his skill as 
a surgeon in all cranial diseases, but rather of his place amongst 
us as a naturalist, for Mr. Hewetson was much more than 
octor; in Natural History and other kindred sciences he was 
an cunt! and when off his regular work every spare hour 
of his life was given to the pursuit of his favourite studies. No 
one ever saw him idle. Whatever at the time was his special 
ur first acquaintance with Mr. Hewetson commenced many 
years since in that corner of Holderness—the Spurn district— 
which he loved, so well, and where subsequently he became 
a regular resident; a pleasant retreat at the end of every week's 
work in Leeds, and in holiday times of the year. 
Mr. Hewetson was a keen archeologist, and in the last 
fifteen years of his life brought together a very interesting 
collection of prehistoric stone implements and pottery, also 
extinct animal remains from tumuli along the coast and search- 
ings in the ancient forest bed, at low water mark. These relics 
of ancient man and beast were as they were got deposited and 
arranged by him in a small museum attached to his house, at. 
Easington, best known to his friends as Mount Pleasant. Alas! 
ow memories crowd in of gatherings of naturalists at that 
hoepitable board, of the MNoctes ‘Ambrostane there, or in the 
parlour of the little village inn, or the home of the two Lotens, 
ather and son. 
‘Mr. Hewetson’s finds in his previous exploration of the 
‘kitchen middens,’ exposed by the action of the sea along the 
coast of Holderness, were placed by him some years since in 
the Museum of the Hull Institution in George Street. Amongst 
many other things he collected some hundreds of coins, ranging 
over a wide period, found on the beach, washed out of those 
fast-vanishing clay cliffs by the united action of frost, rain, and — 
sea. In fact, anything found in the neighbourhood was certain | 
to find its way to ‘the doctor,’ for he had a host of friends and 
neighbours on the outlook who were, in a way, educated by him 
to take interest in these things. 
Hewetson was a man of the quickest perception, and always 
took the greatest possible interest in noting, during the periods 
of migration, the various species of migrants which found 
a temporary resting-place in the district, and he assisted in 
adding edi new birds to the avifaunal list of the county. 
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