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PHILIP LOTEN. 

 (1845-1908). 



It will be a sorrow and a surprise to man}^ to learn of the death, 

 on April 29th, of Philip Loten, of Easington in Holderness. 

 Future visitors to Spurn will be debarred from having the 

 pleasant chat with the remarkable owner of the quaint little 

 museum, which was the show-place of the neighbourhood. 



Photo by} [Oxley Grabham. 



Philip Loten. 



* Philip,' as he was generall}^ known, had lived all his life in the 

 vicinity of Spurn Point, where the flotsam and jetsam provided 

 many treasures, and where he had early acquired his father's 

 taste for natural history. There is no wonder that in such a 

 glorious district he was able to study Nature to his heart's 

 content. The myriads of avian visitors to the long, flat sand- 



1908 July I. 



