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of our Society 2nd Dec. 1S80. Although he has not left any 

 works of magnitude behind him, he most carefully compiled the 

 flora and fauna of many localities, notably those of Scarborough, 

 Lhmduduo, &c. ; and for a long period, apjiroaching half a century, 

 he was a contributor to a large number of periodicals, giving tlie 

 results of his researches, such as ' The FieLl,' the ' Zoologist,' 

 the 'Entomologist,' the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' 

 ' Science Grossip,' and other journals. Ornithology was his 

 favourite subject, and his observations upon the arrival and 

 departure of migratory birds extended over a period of 50 years. 

 He was hardly less acquainted with British Botany, and the 

 proportion of British plants which he had not found in their 

 native habitat was small. Many visits to the Eiviera made him 

 well acquainted with the South European flora. He had a good 

 knowledge of Cryptogams ; and last, but not least, he studied 

 the life-history of insects of all orders, Lepidoptera enuaging his 

 attention for the most part. Latterly he devoted much time to 

 those minute insects the gall-gnats, and during his investigations 

 he bred many species new to science. He lived for years at 

 Storthes Hall, Huddersfield, then at Hovingham, and Harrogate, 

 at all of which places it fell to his lot to train a succession of 

 students in natural science, amongst them our late Eellow, the 

 Rev. W. W. Newbould. His last years were spent in retirement 

 at Hornsea, where all his spare moments were occupied in the 

 observation of nature. His death occurred on Saturday, 13th 

 June, 1896, in his 81st year. 



Thomas Ltttleton Powts, 4th Baron Lilfoed. — Born in 1833, 

 he early developed a love of field natural histoi*y, which rapidly 

 rendered him famous among ornithologists. While still a boy 

 at Eton he became a contributor to the pages of the ' Zoologist,' 

 and, with a short interval, continued to be one of its chief sup- 

 porters until his death. He was a shrewd observer, practical 

 in all his undertakings, and as his love of field-ornithology 

 developed into a passion, he was to be found at all times at 

 work upon it, whether at home or on the Continent. His 

 collected observations on home birds found full expression in a 

 valuable treatise in 8 vols, with coloured plates, entitled 'Coloured 

 Figures of British Birds,' of which 33 parts appeared during the 

 years 1885^96 ; and among his contributions to the ornitliology 

 of the European Continent there remain a series of articles in 

 the ' Ibis ' on the Birds of the Ionian Islands, and the provinces 

 of Albania Pi'oper, Epirus, Acarnania, and Montenegro, and of 

 Spain, which have done much for the extension of our knowledge 

 of the avitauna of these respective localities, and towards inducing 

 other persons to pay attention thereto. In 1873-74 he undercook 

 a cruise in the Mediterranean in the ' Zara,' E.T.S., and the 

 articles which record the ornithological observations that he made 

 are as valuable as they are pleasing to read. 



He was a keen sportsman and an enthusiastic falconer, a 



