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and attractive teacher, and enjoyed tlie affectionate regard of 

 'colleagues and studeats alike. 



He contributed a number of valuable papers — embracinof 

 botany, geology, and zoology — to the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field 

 Club, of which he was a Vice-President. He vras also Consulting 

 Botanist and Entomologist to tlie Newcastle Farmers' Club. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1883. He died 

 December 19tb, lb94, at the early age of 47. 



A LEX AjfDEK "William Maxwell Clark- Kennedy, the son of the 

 late Colonel John Clark-Kennedy, C.B., of Knockgray, was born 

 in 1851. He was educated at Eton; and on leaving in 1870, 

 entered the Coldstream G-uards ; but his love of sport and travel 

 induced him to retire from the army in 187-1 on being gazetted 

 Captain. 



Whilst a school-boy he brought out, at the age of sixteen, a 

 little book entitled ' The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire ; 

 a Contribution to the Ornithology of the two Counties by an 

 Eton Boy.' After leaving the army he travelled in Lapland and 

 Norway, and published the account of his journey in a volume 

 entitled ' To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks.' He 

 was also the author of various poems and verses ; and contributed 

 articles to a number of natural history and sporting periodicals. 

 He was an ardent sportsman, and a genial country gentleman in 

 the fullest sense of the word. 



He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, of the 

 Zoological Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries of England 

 and Scotland. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1871. 

 He died at his house in Eccleston Square, London, after a brief 

 illness, on December 21st, 1891, at the age of 43. 



De. David Lyall was born at Auchinblae in Kincardineshire, 

 June 1st, 1817; and, after a long and distinguished service as a 

 Medical Officer and Naturalist in the Royal Navy, he retired in 

 1878. He died at Cheltenham, March 2nd, 1895, with the rank 

 of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets, and a 

 Good-Service Pension. 



Dr. Lyall received his Medical education at Aberdeen, where 

 he took his M.D. Degree, having previously been admitted a 

 Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh. As 

 was not uufrequently the case with young Aberdonian medical 

 men, he sought to improve his medical knowledge and throw 

 himself early on his own resources by undertaking a voyage to 

 Greenland as Surgeon to a whale-ship ; and this no doubt led to 

 his being selected, immediately after entering the Royal Navy in 

 1839, for service under Sir James Ross in the expedition then 

 being fitted out for a scientific voyage to the Antarctic Regions. 

 He was appointed Ast^istant Surgeon of H.M.S. 'Terror' (the 

 consort of H.M.S. ' Erebus '), under Commander Crozier, to 

 which duties Sir James (then Captain) Ross added those of 



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