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REV. JOHN HAWELL, M.A., F.Q.S. 



The news of the recent death of the Rev. John Hawell, at the 

 comparatively early age of 49, will come as a sad surprise to 

 naturalists throughout the country, so many of whom were his 

 personal friends. Yorkshiremen will particularly mourn his loss, 

 whilst his own parishioners of Ingleby Greenhow have lost 

 a vicar to whom they looked for advice and help during the last 

 24 years. 



To the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Mr. Hawell was of great 

 assistance, and his place will be exceedingly difficult to fill. He 

 was President of the Geological Section, Divisional Secretary 

 for North-east Yorkshire, and served on several committees. 

 Whatever he undertook to do he did promptly and well. The 

 excursions which he organised in his district were always most 

 successful. 



He was largely instrumental in bringing the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club into its present flourishing condition. 

 Of this society he was President in 1891, 1895-6, and 1903-4. 

 Under his editorship the Cleveland Club has issued valuable 

 annual Proceedings since 1895, which contain contributions to 

 the natural history, etc., of the Cleveland area. In these 

 Proceedings Mr. Hawell himself published papers dealing with 

 the Mollusca, Geology, Physiography, etc., of North-east York- 

 shire. The Yorkshire Geological Society is also indebted to 

 him for papers on geology and palaeontology. Under the latter 

 head special mention might be made of his * Description of Two 

 New Species of Gasteropoda from the Upper Lias of Yorkshire ' 



(1897). 



To ' The Naturalist ' Mr. Hawell was a frequent contributor, 

 and so recently as August last a paper appeared from his pen 

 dealing with the plant remains which he had found in the 

 Oolitic beds of North Cleveland. In this paper he gave an 

 account of the last piece of scientific work he was permitted 

 to accomplish — his subsequent illness preventing him pursuing 

 a work which to him was a pleasure and to science a profit. 



In addition to the natural sciences Mr. Hawell was well 

 acquainted with the antiquities, folk-lore, etc., of his neighbour- 

 hood. 



He was buried at Greystoke, Cumberland, his native place, 

 and leaves a widow. ^ . 



1904 August 1. Q 



