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which, increasing as years rolled on, culminated in his well-known 

 work, the ^^ Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds." 



Bird-nesting and Egg-collecting were followed out with the 

 same ardour that he exhibited in prosecuting Entomology ; the 

 two studies were equally prosecuted, and appear to have occu- 

 pied the almost undivided attention of his after life. 



In 1827 and 1828 his collections were rich in British Coleop- 

 tera and Lepidoptera, and his name was about that time frequently 

 mentioned as that of a collector of authority in Stephens' '^ Illus- 

 trations of Entomology," and has been often quoted since then 

 in the Lists of Insects in the first and second volumes of the 

 "Transactions of the Tyneside I^aturalists' Field Club," and in 

 the Lists of Insects of N^orthumberland and Durham, by T. J. 

 Bold, in the fourth volume of the ''JS'atural History Transactions 

 of JS'orthumberland and Durham," along with those of Wailes, 

 Hancock, and others. 



In Eebruary, 1829, a project to form a Society for the study 

 of IN'atural History was started amongst a few members of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society. This, in July of the same 

 year, had so far made progress that a list of those favourable to it 

 was drawn up, and therein we find the name of Mr. Hewitsou, 

 along with those of his friends, "Mr. A. Hancock, Mr. R. B. 

 Bowman, Mr. Joshua Alder, Mr. George "Wailes, and Mr. Wm. 

 Hutton. On the 19tli of August, of the same year, the first 

 meeting was held, and the Natural History Society of JS'orthum - 

 bcrland, Durham, and iN'ewcastle-upon-Tync was established. 

 Mr. Hewitsou was a member of the first Committee, and in 1833 

 and 1834 was one of its Secretaries. He took an active interest 

 in the affairs of the Society, and contributed several papers to its 

 meetings. At the time of his death he was one of its Yicc-Prcsi- 

 dents, and a liberal subscriber to its funds. 



In 1832 he visited the Shetland Islands, and brought home a 

 large collection of eggs for the illustration of his work on British 

 Oology. 



In the year 1833, in pursuance of his favourite object of Or- 

 nithology, he went with his two friends, Mr. Jolin Hancock and 

 Mr. Benjamin Johnson, on an expedition to Norway, to collect 



