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exploration of the Vertebrata of Egypt, upon which, with the aid of 

 collectois, he brought to bear the ripe experience of his earlier cla3-s, 

 sparing neither pains nor monej^ to ensure the success of the under- 

 taking. The Mammalia, Eeptilia, and Batrachia were duly investi- 

 gated, and his first published volume entitled ' A Contribution to 

 tlie Herpetology of Arabia,' issued in 1898, is a magnificant quarto 

 book, produced at great personal cost, for which no praise can be 

 too high. It includes a description of the collections of Mr. J. T. 

 Bent and others ; and it is most satisfactory to know not only that 

 he left on hand a great deal of the MS. for the Mammalian volume, 

 but that it and the volume upon the Batrachia are to be completed 

 and published. In the course of this great task he resolved to strain 

 every nerve in the endeavour to work out the zoological resources 

 of the Egyptian area, as soon as the Upper Valley of the Nile 

 became open to civilization ; and, availing himself of his friend- 

 ship with Lord Cromer, he succeeded in enlisting the sympathies 

 of the Egyptian Government, with the result that a systematic 

 piscatorial survey of the Nile has been for nearly two years in 

 full operation. Well-preserved collections are constantly being 

 despatched ; and when the results are made known, they cannot fail 

 to constitute a lasting testimony to the enthusiasm and foresight of 

 this great man, whose death we deeply deplore. 



As a worker, Dr. Anderson was ideal in his accuracy of observation. 

 Never excited, always cool and deliberate, he did everything with 

 his own hands, and with a confidence and painstaking assurance 

 which defied criticism. 



He was a Gold Medallist, M.D., and LL.D. of Edinburgh, 

 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He was a 

 Fellow of the Zoological Society, in the work of which he for long 

 years took a leading part ; and was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society on 20th November, 1862. 



John Borland was a native of Kilmarnock and born in 1822; on 

 leaving the Kilmarnock Academy he was apprenticed to William 

 Eankine & Co., chemists, of that town, in 1837, becoming a partner 

 in about 1866. During the long period of sixty-eight years ho was in 

 the firm above mentioned ; and he died at Troon on 10th July, 1900. 

 In his own business he was widely known and respected ; for 

 many years a member of the Board of Examiners for Scotland of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society, of which Society he was a regular attendant 

 at the monthly meetings, and a member of the Pharamaceutical 

 Board. Besides our own Society, which he joined on 21st June, 

 1883, he was a Fellow of the Chemical and Royal Microscopical 

 Societies. 



James Heney Bowkek was born at Tharfield, lower Albanj% Cape 

 Colony : his father. Miles Bowker, having been one of the earliest 

 English settlers in South Africa. Through the troubled times of 

 the often-recurring Kafir wars of the period, Miles Bowker and his 

 eight stalwart sons bore a conspicuous part ; cool, resolute, enduring, 

 resourceful, they were pioneers and backwoodsmen of the finest type. 



