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tion, and had that keen sense of humour which is often the inheritance. 
of Yorkshiremen, and which not seldom enables them to ride merrily 
over many a wave of ill-luck. In truth, to be in the open field with him 
was to a nature-lover a liberal education. The glorious sun itself did not 
sympathy with his surroundings.: coreg was strange tohim. He 
made them all his own by his love of them. . . . The joys of Nature 
weie his to the full. A few short wie: passed with him in the Alps 
will ever be green in our remembrance. So fitted was he by disposition 
i i d to 
_His remains were interred at Eccleshill, on the 4th of April. 
A large number of Yorkshire naturalists attended at the 
Church to pay their last tribute of respect. He leaves a wife 
and four children to mourn his loss. . CROSSLAND. 
