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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 27.] 1914 [March 



EDITORIAL. 



We regret to record the death, since our last issue, of 

 Lieut.-Col. John Campbell, formerly Governor of Calton 

 Prison, Edinburgh, an enthusiastic lover of birds, and an 

 occasional contributor to our pages. He was born at 

 Cavvnpore, in India, and followed a military career, chiefly 

 in the land of his birth. On leaving the army he came to 

 this country as Deputy-Governor of H.M. General Prison 

 at Perth, whence in 1900 he was promoted to Edinburgh. 



British naturalists have also to mourn the loss of Major 

 G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, one of our best authorities on 

 the mammals of Europe. His untimely decease occurred 

 quite suddenly on 17th January last, in South Georgia, 

 where he had charge of the mission recently despatched by 

 the Colonial Office and the British Museum to investigate 

 the whales of the Antarctic region. Major Barrett-Hamilton 

 was also engaged upon a masterly and exhaustive work 

 (fourteen parts of which are already published) on British 

 Mammals probably the finest work on the subject ever 

 attempted. 



An article in Country Life} signed " W. R. O. G.," gives 

 an interesting account of the nesting of Wild Swans in the 

 Shetland Islands. It is stated that in 1909 a pair of 

 Whoopers were shot at and winged near Dunrossness. 

 Their broken pinions were amputated and the birds allowed 



1 24th January 1914, pp. 119-120. 

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