viii IN MEMORIAM 



honourable and best. He was the revered friend of the 

 writer of this notice for over thirty years. 



Colonel Wardlaw Ramsay, who had been keenly interested 

 in the study of birds from boyhood, was elected a Member 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1872, and its 

 President from 191 3 to 1918; and was a Fellow of the 

 Zoological Society. He commenced to contribute to orni- 

 thological literature in 1S74, as is indicated by the list of 

 his various papers which forms the conclusion of this notice. 

 On the death of his uncle, Arthur, ^larquess of Tweeddale, 

 who was for many years the distinguished President 

 of the Zoological Society, Wardlaw Ramsay inherited the 

 vast collection of birds formed by that nobleman. This 

 the inheritor generously presented to the British Museum 

 (Natural History), on condition that a set of duplicate 

 specimens was to be sent to the Edinburgh Museum. He 

 also handed over the very valuable ornithological library, 

 which came to him with the collections, to the Natural 

 History Museum, on condition it was placed in the Bird- 

 room for the use of the officers and students working there. 

 It is now known as the Tweeddale Library. In 1881 he 

 edited and revised a memorial volume entitled The Ornitho- 

 logical Works of Arthur^ Ninth Marquess of Tweeddale, a 

 quarto of 760 pages. During the last years of his life, his 

 ornithological activities were devoted to the preparation of this 

 "Guide," which he did not live to see in book form. 



Colonel Wardlaw Ramsay was in his seventieth year, and 

 had been seriously ill for about a month, when he passed 

 away on the 22nd April 192 1. He married the elder daughter 

 of Mr Charles Swinton Hogg, Administrator-General of Bengal, 

 and second son of Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart, by whom, as 

 well as three sons and two daughters, he is survived. 



