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MR. ROSSE BUTTERFIELD, of High Cote, Riddles-den, Yorkshire, curator of the Keighley (Yorkshire) Corporation Museum, who died recently at the age of sixty-four years, was a well-known naturalist of the West Riding. He came of a Wilsden family of naturalists and his father was a well-known authority; another member of the family was the late Mr. Ruskin Butterfield, formerly curator of the Hastings Museum. Mr. Rosse Butterfield did much valuable work in connexion with organizations of naturalists, and he was himself known for his work in entomology. He had been the curator at Keighley Museum since 1910 and was due to retire next year. Under his guidance the development of the Museum collections and of education in natural history has made rapid strides. He was a member of the executive of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union and was secretary of the Keighley Naturalist Society. He was a member of the committee of the Bradford Natural History and Microscopical Society and was recorder for Hymenoptera. Formerly, Mr. Butterfield was curator of the Bronte Museum at Haworth.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 142, 986 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142986b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142986b0