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a shilling- each week for twelve weeks, at the end of which time 

 Beaumont handed him back his g"un, along- with the twelve 

 shilling-s, and told him to avoid poaching for the future. 



On relinquishing- commercial life about two years ago, 

 Beaumont removed from London to the pretty village of 

 Gosfield, in Essex, where he and his estimable wife made 

 a charming home, and where they had hoped to have spent a 

 few more years together in the quiet pursuits of country life, 

 but which, alas ! was not long- to be realised. 



A well-built and strong-, active man all his life, he had been 

 ailing- during- the past few weeks from an apparently slight 

 heart trouble, when on the date already mentioned, whilst 

 actually sitting at the table, working- at his insects, he suddenly 

 passed away. Truly he died in harness. 



He was twice married, but lost his first wife many years 

 ago, when the beautiful church at Wilshaw, near Huddersfield, 

 was erected to her memory. His second wife survives him, and 

 we are sure that the sincerest sympathy of all his naturalist 

 and other friends will go out to her, in the heaviest of all blows 

 which could have come upon her. G. T. P. 



THE MAKING OF EAST YORKSHIRE. 



THOMAS SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 



One frequently hears reference to the ' everlasting hills,' and to 

 the uninitiated there seems to be a general impression that the 

 world is now as it always has been ; the present mountains and 

 valleys, and rivers and sea, being- as they were left after the 

 deluge. 



A cursory glance, however, will show that the history of the 

 earth, like the history of any country or community, is an 

 interesting one ; there have been many ups and downs and 

 chang-es of very important character. As in the case of our 

 written histories there are many blanks in the great chain oi 

 evidences relating- to the g-radual evolution of the earth from its 

 once molten mass to its present more rigid form. In England 

 we are exceptionally favoured by having- representatives of all 

 the important strata comprising- the earth's crust, and in our 

 islands we have an epitome of the geological history of the 

 earth. In Yorkshire, strang-ely enough, we possess examples 

 of most of the important rocks in the country, which fact makes 



1905 April I. 



