During that year he obtained from the Corporation the grant of a room in the Municipal Buildings for the housing of the collections and library and holding of meetings of that body.

He recorded several new visitors to the surroundings of Leeds, and, in conjunction with other observers, was active in the field of the study of migration.

[6] On his visits to the North Coast of Africa he made valuable collections of the birds and insects of that region.

His artistic abilities were of great service, for he could depict natural history objects in colours with "wonderful fidelity."

His incursions into the realm of photography were limited to the use of a hand camera, with which he was fairly successful.

He presented a valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities to the Museum of the Philosophical Society of Leeds.