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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 57.] 1916 [September 



3n riDcmoriam 



JOHN ALEXANDER HARVIE-BROWN. 



Born 2yth August 1844; died 26th July 191 6. 



By the death of Dr Harvie- Brown, which occurred unex- 

 pectedly on the 26th of July at his residence, Dunipace 

 House, Stirlingshire, a notable Scottish naturalist has passed 

 away, and a wide circle mourn the loss of a singularly genial 

 and valued friend. 



The record of his work in furtherance of our knowledge 

 concerning the vertebrate fauna of Scotland is a remarkable 

 one, as is testified to by the long series of papers and notes 

 contributed to serial literature, and the fine series of volumes 

 devoted to accounts of the faunas of the various drainage 

 areas of Northern Britain. In the production of most of the 

 volumes of the " Vertebrate Fauna " series he had as an 

 associate and coadjutor the late T. E. Buckley, but it is 

 generally recognised that the laird of Dunipace was the 

 originator and mainstay of the great undertaking. At one 

 time it was his custom to spend some weeks each summer 

 cruising in his yacht among the Scottish islands, and in this 

 way he was enabled to visit the remotest isles in the Hebrides 

 and the Orkney and Shetland groups. Not only were these 

 faunal volumes (there are ten of them) of great value in 

 themselves for the amount of information they contained, 

 but also on account of the impulse they gave to the investiga- 

 tion of the animal life of the various areas ; they were the 

 means of inducing those who possessed additional information 

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