born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z.S., M.R.I.A., though principally known as a mammalogist, was also an ornithologist, but as the hulk of his contributions to ornithology appeared in the pages of the Irish Naturalist, he was probably not so well known to English ornithologists as he deserved to be. Without attempting a complete list, there are communications on birds from him in the Ibis for 1895-97-98, 1900-02, and Bull. B.O.C., 1898 (LI. and LIIL), etc. His most enduring memorial will be A History of British Mammals, appearing in parts, of which, unfortunately, not much more than half is yet published. In October last, accompanied by an assistant from the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, he started to South Georgia (the captain of the ship being an old Norwegian whaling friend of the writer's of nearly thirty years ago) on a mission from the Colonial Office, to investigate and report on the whaling, sealing, and " penguining" carried on there, and also to investigate and report on, and to form a coEection of, the fauna of the island for the Natural History Museum. After a passage of thirty-five days he landed there, and found himself surrounded by several most interesting species of birds and beasts. The weather he described to the present