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WILLIAM DOHERTY. 



OBITUARY. 

 By ERKST HARTERT. 



IT is witli the deepest regret that I have to aunoiince the death of William 

 Doherty, whose name is so well known to all those who are jjenisiug the i)ages 

 of NoviTATES ZooLOGiCAE. His death is a great loss to zoological scieuce in general, 

 to the Tring Museum particularly, which has been receiving the most valnable 

 collections from this indefatigable collector, and to myself personally, as we were 

 friends ever since we met on the road in Perak, in the Malay Peninsula, and travelled 

 together in Assam and the Naga Hills. 



Throngh the kindness of his parents, who sent me some notes, and with the 

 help of my own recollections and a great number of letters, I am able to give the 

 following particulars from the life of my friend. 



William Doherty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 1.5th, 1857. He was 

 a delicate child, and therefore not sent to school until he was eleven years old. 

 Without any special encouragement, he developed already in his childhood a keen 

 interest for all living creatures. He was in the third year at the f'incinnati 

 University, and had taken his examination for Yale College, when he went abroad 

 in ISTS. 



From 1878 to 1893 there is before me a sort of short itinerary, which he had 

 written for one of his sisters, to whom he was very much attached. I take the 

 following extracts from these notes : — 



1878. 

 "Left home in March as attache of the United States Agricultural Department 

 at the Paris Exhibition. Arrived in England Ajiril ;3rd ; walked from Chester to 

 Snowdon ; saw London and Paris. Left Paris in July and visited Holland, Belgium 

 and the greater part of German}'. Went to Tyrol, crossed the Bavarian Alps on 

 foot, and walked from Munich to Padua and Venice. From that town to Hungary, 

 Roumania, Bulgaria (during the Russian occupation), Constantinople, Salonica, 

 Athens." 



1879. 

 " Delightful walks all over Greece and adjoining jiarts of Turkey. Christmas 

 at Olympia, while the excavations were going on under much excitement, soon after 

 the discovery of the Hermes of Praxiteles. (Congress at Berlin then sitting.) 

 Visit to Chios, to Samoa, which was almost wholly independent ; also to Tenos, 

 Paros, Syros, Xante, etc. Megaspeleion — attack of fever." (It may here be 

 mentioned that Doherty was one of the most enthusiastic philhellenists.) 



1880. 

 " Went to Asia Minor, and was robbed at Smyrna, t'ircassian settlements ; 

 insecurity great. Stoned by boys at Magnesia. The Ionian Peninsula. Helleuised 



