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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 40.] 1915 [April 



EDITORIAL. 



It is with regret that we record the death of one of our 

 contributors, Mr L. N. G. Ramsay, M.A., B.Sc, in action 

 on the plains of France. At the Universities, both of 

 Aberdeen and of Cambridge, he was marked as a 

 young na'curah'st of great promise, and original observa- 

 tions of his student days on the plumage and characters 

 of birds have appeared in this and other scientific 

 journals. Later, as a Carnegie Research Scholar, as one 

 of the first Beit Fellows, and as assistant in the Natural 

 History Department of Aberdeen University, he had com- 

 menced a series of detailed studies on the structures and 

 relationships of certain of the Marine Annelid Worms, and 

 some of these studies have already been published. As a 

 student he served, latterly as Colour-Sergeant, in the Aberdeen 

 University Company of the 4th Batt. Gordon Highlanders 

 (T.F.), and shortly after the outbreak of war volunteered 

 with this company for active service, receiving a commission 

 in the Reserve of Officers, from which he was posted to the 

 2nd Battalion. By his early and lamented death on the 

 battlefield, Scotland has lost an enthusiastic and effective 

 worker in the fields of natural history. 



The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild has just published ^ an 



1 Ent. Mo. Mag., March 1915, pp. 49-112, pts. vii-xiv. 

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