MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
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tho 22ml of Xovcmbcr, 1705) and Frances liis Avife, daughter of 
Colonel Ciunhrey. Kobert Scales was a zealous entomologist, as 
is already known from the references to liis studies and discoveries 
that were long ago published by Haworth — his hrother-in-laAv, and 
by Kirby ; and tho letters, hereto appended, from several of tho 
best entomologists of the day, those just named among tho rest, 
will servo to show tlie estimation in which tho Avriters held 
their correspondent (Appendix A). Some years after the birth of 
his eldest son, tho father removed from York.shiro to London, or 
its neighbourhood, in order more particularly to attend to a Spanish 
business in Avhich ho Avas largely interested ; and his children, Avith 
his household-goods, Avero sent by sea from Hull to London. In 
tho course of tho voyage tho ship Avas .seized by a French cruiser, 
and tho crow and pa.ssengers Avero taken ])risoners. In this condition 
Jolin Scales, Avith others, Avas landed in France, and there detained 
until ransomed by his father,* Avho, on leaving Yorkshire, .settled in 
Walworth, Avhere ho continued successfully to carry on his zoological 
pursuits ; for, notAvithstamling its neighbourhood to London, his 
noAv abode Avas in those days to be accounted a country village, and 
(.'amberAvell and Huhvich, ivs Avell as the fields then lying lictAveen 
Kennington and Battersea, oifered good ground for entomological 
excui-sion.s, in AA’hich his son John seems to have been his constant 
companion ; Avhile tlio residence of a practical entomologist like his 
connection, HaAVorth,t at Chelsea, afforded additional opportunities 
for and encouragement in insect-research. Under circumstances so 
favourable, the taste for Katural History, Avhich avo may Avell believe 
Avas inborn in the younger Scales, Avas fostered and matured. Tho 
boy Avas, hoAvcA'cr, subsequently sent to school at Loavcs in Sussex, 
Avhere ho remained till the end of 1S08, being tben fourteen years 
* This singular event seems to have happened at the end of the last 
century, as I find from documents before me that William, the fourth child, 
Avas born at Cottingham, ilarch 7th, 1799, while Elizabeth, the fifth child, 
was born at Walworth, May 9th, 1801. The exodus of the family from 
York.shire no doubt took place between those dates. 
t Adrian Uardy Haworth, F.L.S., author of ‘ Lepidoptera Britannica,’ 
and several es.s.ays on various subjects connected with zoology and botany, 
(lied of cholera, August 21th, 1833, aged 06. — ‘Entomological Magazine,’ 
i. p. 525. 
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