3n /nbcinoriam* 
REV. JOHN HAWELL, M.A., F.G.S. 
One of the most severe losses that our Society and the 
cause of geological investigation in Yorkshire have suffered for 
many years has been sustained by the recent death of the Rev. 
John Hawell, Vicar of Ingleby Greenhow, who passed away 
after a period of prolonged weakness on Tuesday, 21st of June. 
Mr. Hawell became a member of our Society in the year 
1887, and took an active part in its Meetings and Field 
Excursions. In 1896 he accepted the position of Local Secretary 
for the Middlesbrough District, a post which carried with it 
a seat on the Council, but the distance of his home from Leeds, 
where the Council Meetings are usually held, prevented him 
from being frequently present at their deliberations. 
In July, 1896, Mr. Hawell was one of the leaders of the 
Field Excursion to the Yorkshire Coast north and south of 
Whitby, and many of the members will remember the quiet, 
self-controlled way in which he met the fierce attack made upon 
him by an irate farmer, near Boulby, as the leader of the army 
of trespassers. At the General Meeting he exhibited and 
described a series of glacial boulders found in the parish of 
Ingleby Greenhow. 
During this meeting an interesting find of univalve shells 
was made by Mrs. Kendall in the Upper Lias of Salt wick Nab. 
As only two species of Gasteropoda had been found before in 
the Jet Rock, zone of Ammonites serpentinus, though it had 
been worked with exceptional thoroughness for jet, this find 
was of much interest, and the new species were described and 
figured in our Proceedings by Mr. Hawell, by whom they received 
the names of Actceonina Kendallii and Turbo saltvicensis . 
In accordance with his suggestion the summer meeting of 
our Society in the year 1899 was held at Stokesley, for the examin- 
ation of parts of the Cleveland Hills adjoining Stokesley, Great 
Ay ton, and Ingleby Greenhow. The Field Excursions were 
under Mr. HawelFs direction, and his vigorous leadership and 
genial company will long be remembered by the members present . 
