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died the same year ; and, second, to Miss Jane Arbutliuot, wlio 

 died in 1892, by whom he leaves issue, his eldest sou, the 

 Hon. Hugh Grougb, succeeding to the title. 



Viscount Gough was one of our senior Fellows, having been 

 elected 3rd JN^ovember, 18-10. Latterly he led a quiet secluded 

 life, was a V.P. of the Hoyal Dublin Society, and, so long as his 

 health j)ermitted, took an active interest in its work. For some 

 time past his health had declined, and he passed away as noted 

 above. 



LiEUT.-CoLONEL Fkedeeick Hendeeson, who died on the 21th 

 September, 1895, at the age of 51, was gazetted Ensign in 

 the Army in 1857, and rose to the rank of Hon. Lieut.-Col. in 

 1880, finally retiring in 1891 with the pension of Major from the 

 107th Foot. During his career in India, especially as Military 

 Secretary to the Commander-in-Cliief, he busied himself in col- 

 lecting ferns, at first in the Nilghiris, aud afterwards at Simla. 

 In his herbarium he had collections from numerous botanic 

 friends, and had bought largely ; he always intended to work up 

 his collections at Kew, but various circumstances hindered his 

 doing so. 



Bet. William Hocghtok, M.A., for many years Eector of 

 Preston, near Wellington, Salop, was an enthusiastic and ambi- 

 tious student of nature, author of a number of short papers on 

 miscellaneous natural history subjects, showing a preference for 

 the Pol} zoa, lusecta, Pisces, and the Molluscan larvae. He was 

 author of a popular book entitled ' Sea-side AValks of a Natu- 

 ralist ; ' and late in life, in the production of a large work on 

 'British Freshwater Fishes,' he essayed a task which the pages 

 of the compilation show to have been beyond his power. Early 

 in his career as an author he manifested a leaning towards the 

 study of British archisology and antiquities, in the publication 

 in the ' Intellectual Observer ' for 1862 of a pamphlet upon '" The 

 Unicorn of the Ancients," and in the ' Annals and Magazine of 

 JNatural History' for 1869 of another upon "The Eabbit as 

 known to the Ancients.' Larger works of this category were 

 his ' Grleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients ' (1880), 

 and his ' Birds of the Assyrian Monuments ' (1881). 



In 1883 he was a competitor fur two of the Essay Prizes 

 offered under the auspices of the International Fisheries Exhi- 

 bition, held at South Jvensington. 113 essays upon 25 subjects 

 were in all presented, and Houghton received hon. mention 

 in competition for the first prize of £100 (offered by Sir H. 

 Peek, Bart., M.P., and awarded to the late Dr. Francis Day) for 

 an essay upon ' The Natural History of Commercial Sea-Fishes 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, with especial reference to such 

 parts of their natural history as bear upon their production and 

 commercial use ; ' and also hon. mention for a prize oi £23 



