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SalmoDidse appeared in 1892. Ic was almost entirely rewritten, 

 and is practically a new work 



Sir James served on the Forth District Board and on the 

 Fishery Beard for Scotland. He was a J. P. and D.L. for 

 Stirlingshire, and a J.P. tor Midlothian. For some years lie was 

 the Convener of the County of Stirling, and when by the Act of 

 1887 County Councils were et*tablished in Scotland, he became 

 Chairman of the Stirlingshire County CouQcil, aud continued to 

 hold that office until his death. 



He built a new mansion bouse on the Sauchie estate and 

 named it Sauchieburn, and he, with his wife and daughtt-r, moved 

 into it in the summer of 1893. Lady Maitlaud died on March 

 17th, 1896, and her death was felt as a very severe loss by her 

 husband. 



Sir James died at Sauchieburn, of heart disease, on Tuesday, 

 9ch November, 1897. He leaves an only daugbter, who succeeds 

 to his estates. 



He was a Fellow of the Zoological and Geological Societies, 

 and was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 15th June, 

 1852. [H. W. M.] 



Thomas Jeffekt Pabkee, D.Sc, F.E.S., eldest son of AVilliam 

 Kitchen Parker, was born in London on October 17th, 1850. As 

 a boy he showed more taste for literature and art than for 

 science, and was not, like his father, a born naturalist. On 

 leaving school he entered as a student at the Jioyal College 

 of Chemistry and Koyal School of Mines, where he came under 

 Professor Huxley's influence ; and when tl)e latter uiigrated to 

 S. Kensington and began to organize practical courses, he oft'ered 

 the post of Demonstrator in Biology to Paiker. 



Tbe working out of Huxley's splendidly conceived plan of 

 practical teaching was left largely m Parker's hands, and iiovv 

 successful he was in this task can only be appreciated by those 

 who studied under him, many of whom now hold iuipoitant 

 scientific positions in various parts of the world. The whole 

 course, in fact, set an example which has since been widely 

 followed, both in this country and abroad. 



In the intervals between the courses Parker gradually orga- 

 nized a Teacliing Collection, and also made a number of ex- 

 quisite dissections of various types of animals, and prepared 

 ora\\ings of them. In this work he was subsequently most 

 efficiently aided by Mr. (now Professor) O. B. Howes, who, in 

 addition to making oissections, prepared the now weJl-known 

 series of coloured laboratory drawings which adorn the walls of 

 the Biological Laboratory at S, Kensington, and copies of which 

 viere afterwards lurnisned to most of the Universities aud 

 Colleges m the United Kingdom and to others in Ameuca and 

 on the Continent. These were at first based upon Parker's 

 originals ; but subsequently the series was enlarged and improved 

 upon by Howes, who utilized Bome of them in the preparatiun 



