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out of the ' Kitchen Middens ' of East Yorkshire. He was the author 

 of works entitled ' Thoughts on Ornithology ' and ' Nature Cared 

 for and Uncared for ' ; and his memory will otherv\'ise be revered for 

 the long and useful work that he performed in the interes's of the 

 Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association, of which he 

 was made President in 1885, and again in 1896 and 1897. 



He was a l^'ellow of the Eoyal Geographical Society and of the 

 Zoological, a Member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and was 

 ■elected a Pellow of the Linnean Society on 21st March, 1889. 



NojnrAN Shanks Keru, M.D., whose death took place at Hastings 

 on 30th May, 1900, was born in Glasgow on 17th May, 18.34. 

 Educated in that city, he began life as a iournalist, and, passing to 

 the University, supported himself thus while pursuing his academic 

 career. He is famous for his staunch defence and untiring support 

 of Total Abstinence, which dates from his foundation of the 

 existing Society of that name in connection with the Glasgow 

 University, and for his long career in the work of the Society for 

 the Study and Cure of Inebriety, of which some 20 years ago he 

 was the founder. 



On leaving the University, he acted as Surgeon on the Allan 

 Canadian mail-steamers; and in 1874 he settled in London, at 

 St. John's Wood, becoming Medical Officer of St. Marvlebone, 

 which position he held for a period of 24 years. His writings are 

 mostly in defence of the Temperance Movement, and upon medical 

 subjects bearing upon that ; and both as a writer and speaker he will 

 ever be remembered as one of the most earnest champions of the 

 cause, whose place it would seem impossible to adequately fill. 

 Beyond this, he was further famed for useful and philanthropic 

 works. 



He was a Member of the Obstetrical, Medical, and Harveian 

 ^Societies of London, and held many offices in connection with 

 work among inebriates at home and abroad. 



He was elected a Eellow of the Linnean Society on 16th January, 

 1873. 



The Most Honourable Scho]Mberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess 

 of Lothian, K.T., B.C., &c., was born 2nd December, 1833. His 

 important services to the State are chronicled elsewhere ; it may 

 suffice to say that he was educated at Eton, and New College, 

 Oxford, served as a staif-officer in Persia, and from 1858 was 

 Secretary to the embassies at Erankfort, Madrid, and Vienna till 

 1865 : becoming at a later period (1887-90) Loi'd Rector of 

 Edinburgh University, President of the Scottish Society of 

 Antiquaries, and of the Eoyal Geographical Society. In 1865 he 

 married Lady Victoria Alexandrina Montague-Douglas-Scott, 

 daughter of the 5th Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry, by 

 whom he had a numerous issue, seven of whom survived their 

 father. He succeeded his brother, the 8th Marquess, in 1870. 



His connection with this Society dates from 6th June, 1889 ; 



