The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 41] 1902 [JANUARY 



THE LATE REV. HUGH ALEXANDER 

 MACPHERSON. 



IT is with extreme regret that we have to record the decease 

 of our old and much-valued contributor, the Rev. Hugh 

 Alexander Macpherson, which took place, after a few days' 

 illness, at the Rectory, Pitlochry, on the 28th of November 

 last. We had seen him in Edinburgh only a few days 

 previous to the sad event, and had received his note on 

 " Siskins in Perthshire " for the present number of the 

 " Annals," along with an interesting letter touching upon 

 many subjects, as late as the 22nd, so that his untimely 

 and wholly unexpected death came as a painful surprise. 



The grandson of Dr. Macpherson, Professor of Greek at 

 King's College, Aberdeen, and the eldest son of Mr. Wm. 

 Macpherson, the editor of the " Quarterly Review," he was 

 born at Calcutta forty-three years ago, and was educated 

 at Haileybury and at Oxford. Soon after leaving Oxford, 

 where he graduated with honours in iSSi, Mr. Macpherson 

 took up his residence in Carlisle, as curate of St. James' 

 Church, and commenced those studies in the fauna of the 

 Lake Country with which his name will always be associated. 

 Thus, in 1886, he published, along with Mr. William 

 Duckworth, " The Birds of Cumberland," to be followed, 

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