240 Prior: Water Shrew mn Dentdale, Forkshire. 
was in not concentrating on one or two studies instead of © 
taking up so many various matters which by the very nature 
of things could not be worked out in a busy professional life. 
We well recollect, before failing health incapacitated him 
‘from exercise, our last visit to the coast together ; this was 
near the old warehouse on the Humber side. Immense flocks 
of various waders were gyrating, wildly over the muds, from 
every side came the cries of birds, the shrill A/ee-e-eep of Grey — 
Plover, douey-louey of the Godwits, the more distant Aleep-kleep — 
of Oystercatchers along the tide edge, shrieks of the angry 
Curlew. On the land side of the protective embankment Lap- 
‘wings were all on the wing, careering and tumbling in an 
agitated fashion. What did it all mean this mighty disturbance 
of the bird population along leagues of shore? It was 
Hewetson who was quick to divine the cause. Pointing aloft 
he drew our attention to three magnificent Peregrines, barely 
out of gunshot, passing down the coast, their presence sufficient 
to disturb the various fowl and throw them into ecstacies of 
alarm. pee 
Mr. Hewetson will be a much missed man in the Easington 
and Spurn districts, and memories of the ‘good doctor’ will 
linger amongst the fisher-folk and farmers when all present | 
voices have become silent. _ His cheery manner and pleasant 
smile have comforted and buoyed-up many an old village worthy 
in his passage down the valley of shadow Always anxious 
and willing to do a kind action to those he liked and who loved 
and respected him in turn. 
An arm of aid to the 
A friendly hand to re Trends, 
u o ‘ee 
The world is wide—these things are aural, 
They may be nothing, but ae are All. 
: ; 
NOTE—MA MMALIA, | 
er Shrew in Dentdale, Yorkshire.—I forward you one of the = 
Wat 
mice Shh are in this valley, which I do not recollect seeing elsewhere. 
found along the is or brooks, a 
Deeside, Beak: Sedber rgh, R S. 3., ged. May 
[The example sént was the Water EBore Crossopus eer Ns D. R: 
Naturalist. 
