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entered the service of the Hon. East-India Company as Assistant 

 Surgeon in the Presidency of Madras. In 1844 he published his 

 first work on zoology, the ' Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.' Mr. 

 Jerdon's name, however, will be best known to ornithologists by his 

 work on the ' Birds of India,' which was published in 1862-64. This 

 book has proved of incalculable service in promoting the study of 

 ornithology in India. The edition was speedily sold : and it is 

 believed that it was the author's intention to have published a second 

 edition, incorporating all the materials that he had since collected, 

 both by his own observations and those of others. The " Supple- 

 mentary Notes to the Birds of India," published in ' The Ibis,' and 

 continued down to the end of the Timaliidce, were intended to prepare 

 the way for this second edition. 'Sir. Jerdon had special facilities 

 granted him by the Indian Government to enable him to briiig out 

 the ' Birds of India ; ' and in collecting the material for his work he 

 visited the greater part of India, and also Assam and Burmah. His 

 knowledge of birds was very great ; but he studied them not by 

 amassing their skins, as is the usual and, perhaps, the best way, but 

 by committing, as it were, their peculiarities to memory, with the aid 

 of copious notes and sketches. 



Mr. Jerdon was elected an Honorary Member of the Zoological 

 Society in 1864 ; and on his return to England, at his own request, 

 he was placed on the list of Ordinary Members. He died on the 

 12th of June, 1872, at Upper Norwood, after a long and tedious 

 illness, originally contracted in Assam, and which not even the change 

 to the climate of Europe enabled him to shake off ; and by his death 

 the science of ornithology has lost one of its most zealous supporters. 

 Mr. Jerdon was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 21st of 

 January, 1864. 



Robert Mac Andrew was born at "Wandsworth in March 1802. 

 His father, who was a native of Elgin, in Scotland, had settled in 

 business in London, and had married in England. The death of his 

 father in 1821 caused Robert Mac An drew to inherit a share of his 

 business and the accompanying occupation and responsibility early 

 in life, in fact very soon after completing his education at Fulham. 



The death of a brother a few years later led to his removing to 

 Liverpool, where he resided till 1856, engaged in commercial pursuits. 

 He married his cousin. Miss MacAndrew, in 1829, soon after settling 

 in Liverpool. About the year 1834, the cares of business engrossing 

 less of his attention than before, he began to collect shells, and soon 



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