Reminiscences of a Yorkshire naturalist / edited by his wife.
- William Crawford Williamson
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reminiscences of a Yorkshire naturalist / edited by his wife. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![CHAPTER XIV From 1887 to the End [Continuation by Mrs. Williamson] Dr. Williamson and I spent our holiday, after the close of the British Association meeting, at Scar- borough, where we had never been together without visiting some of his old haunts. This year we went to all of them ; to the spot on which he was born, now changed, of course; to the cottage where he had droned his ABC; to the district that had yielded his largest supply of insects ; to Mr. Potter’s school. We went to the Lebberston farm cottage, where he had spent so many summers, and we wandered over fields in which he had spouted poetry to frighten the crows. We stood at the Thornton desk, where he had shed bitter tears over his Latin grammar, and we picniced under his favourite nesting trees. To the Museum he never tired of going; he almost embraced the brown old skeleton that had inspired one of his earliest papers, and he not only knew every bird in the place, but could give vivid accounts of the killing and stuffing of most of them. We lingered in o](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28037091_0225.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
