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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 48.] 1915 [December 



EDITORIAL. 



We greatly regret to announce the death of Richard 

 ManHfife Barrington, which took place suddenly while he was 

 motoring from Dublin to his home at Bray on the 15th of 

 September. Through this tragic event many naturalists 

 have lost a valued friend and Ireland a zoologist and 

 botanist whom she can ill afford to part with. Mr Barrington 

 was best known to zoologists for his ornithological work, 

 more especially in connection with the great inquiry instituted 

 by the British Association to investigate the migration of 

 birds as observed on the British and Irish coasts. Barrington 

 continued these investigations after the active work of the 

 Committee had ceased, and published the whole of the Irish 

 information in his Migration of Birds as observed at Irish 

 Light-stations — a niagnum op?cs. His unlooked-for decease 

 has created a great blank in the ranks of British and Irish 

 naturalists. 



Among the various popular articles dealing with bird-life 

 which have been recently published, stands out one of more 

 than usual interest. It is entitled " Penguins of South 



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Georgia," ^ and is written and illustrated by Robert Cushman 



' Coufitry Life., 14th August 191 5, pp. 223-227 {continued). An 

 official report appeared in Science Bulletin., vol. ii., No. 5, of the Museum 

 of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (2nd August 191 5). 

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