A L F R E D H A Z E L W O O D died on 7th December 1961 at Bradshaw, near Bolton, Lancashire. He had returned home on Z3rd November after spending five weeks at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where his condition had been found to be inoperable. Born at Doncaster on 30th April 1913, he matriculated at Doncaster Grammar School, held a Studentship for two years at the Bird Room of the British Museum (Natural History), and in the early thirties became Assistant at the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery. He relinquished this post in 1935 to be Assistant Curator at the Chadwick Museum, Bolton. Appointed Curator to the Bolton Museums and Art Gallery in 1957 by unanimous vote, without the vacancy having been advertised, he was subsequently responsible for considerable improvements such as the complete reorganisation of the Art Gallery, the establishment of a Cotton Machinery Museum at Tonge Moor and the taking over of Smithshills Hall. In 1939 he married Ellen Gallwey, who was then Assistant Curator of the Tolson Memorial Museum at Huddersfield. She being a herpetologist and generally interested in all branches of natural history, their interests were so much intertwined that it proved to be a perfect partnership. He saw service with the Royal Navy in the Second World War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant R.N.V.R. During a commission in the Northern Isles he met the late Samuel Bruce of Lerwick, with whom he struck up a mutual friendship. As he never