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aud his remains were privately interred at the chapel of Ormskirk. 

 His museum of birds and quadrupeds was bequeathed to the town 

 of Liverpool, and has been gratefully accepted by the Town Council. 

 He requested that Her IMajesty and the Zoological Society should 

 each choose a species from his living collection, and in pursuance 

 of this desire the Zoological Society has become possessed of a 

 magnificent stock of four Elands, the only representatives of this 

 noble antelope that have been seen in Europe. The remainder of 

 his menagerie was in October last submitted to public auction at 

 Knowsley, the catalogue occupying fifty 4to pages, and produced 

 about £7000. Although possessed of extensive scientific knowledge 

 of the subjects of his favourite pursuit, and ever ready to forward 

 the publications of others. Lord Derby himself pubhshed little in 

 connexion with zoology. Some anonymous obsen'ations on the 

 birds collected in Abyssinia by Mr. Salt, appended to that gentle- 

 man's travels, a Note in our own ' Transactions ' on the diflference of 

 species of the English and Irish Hares, and a few occasional contri- 

 butions to the ' Proceedings ' of the ZoologicEil Society, constitute 

 nearly the whole of his published contributions to zoological science ; 

 with the exception of a magnificent foh'o work entitled ' Gleanings 

 from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall,' of which two 

 Parts, containing 76 plates, printed only for private distribution, 

 were issued in 1846 and 1850. The systematic text of this splendid 

 work is entirely from the pen of Dr. Gray, who selected the subjects 

 and superintended their publication ; Lord Derby having himself 

 supplied a series of interesting notes on the habits of the animals 

 described and figured, as observed by him in his menagerie. The 

 plates, executed chiefly by Mr. Lear and Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, 

 deservedly rank among the most perfect representations of animals 

 that have ever been produced. 



Henry Downes, Esq., Comrn. R.N., Honorary Director of the 

 United Service Institution, was a Midshipman on board the Fisgard at 

 the taking of Cura^oain 1807, and during the Walcheren Expedition 

 in 1 809 ; commanded one of her boats in the destruction of a privateer 

 in the Baltic in 1810, and in the cutting out of a ship from Rostock 

 in 1811 ; and in 1813 was wrecked in the Daedalus off Ceylon. He 

 received his commission of Lieutenant in 1814; and was promoted 

 to the rank of Commander in Alay 1829. In the same year, while 

 in command of the Black Joke on the coast of Africa, he captured, 

 after a gallant action, the Spanish slave-brig Almirante of fourteen 

 guns. On his return to England he established himself at Notting 

 Hill, where he passed the remainder of his life, and where he died 

 on the 3id of April in the present year, at the age of 62. He be- 



