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and 1870, ' Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds,' 1873-75, ed. 2, 

 London, 3 vols. 18S9-90, and ' The Indian Ornithological Collec- 

 tor's Yade Meciim,' 1874. He was editor of the eleven volumes 

 of 'Stray Feathers,' 1873-99; and joint-author with C. H. T. 

 Marshall of the ' Game-birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon,' 

 1879-80. With Dr. Gr. Henderson, he wrote ' Lahore to Yarkand,' 

 1873. 



He quitted India in 1890 and took up his residence in Xor- 

 Avood : and here he devoted himself to amassing an herbarium, 

 and library to coi'respond, which, when it amounted to 40,000 

 sheets, he founded in 1911 as the ' South London Botanical 

 Institute' at 323 Norwood Road. The sum of o£15,000 has been 

 bequeathed in his will, for the maintenance of the Institute. He 

 was elected a Fellow of the Liunean Society so recently as 18th 

 April, 1901, and died on the 31st July, 1912, at his house in 

 Tapper Xorwood, at the age of 83 ; the last surviving son of his 

 father. His wife, whom he had married in 1853, had died twenty 

 years earlier. [B. D. J.] 



By the deatli of Frederick Halsey Jaxsox at Brighton on the 

 1st May this year, the Linnean Society has lost its oldest 

 Fellow, and the legal profession its senior solicitor. On the 

 8th February he celebrated his 100th birthday, being honoured 

 by a congratulatory message from the King. 



In 1835 Mr. Janson was admitted an attorney and solicitor, 

 becoming at that date a partner in the firm of Smith, Bade}', 

 and Jansou, whose records are stated to extend back to 1728, 

 and still practising under the title of Janson, Cobb, Pearson 

 & Co. 



On the 21st March, 1837, he was elected Fellow of this Society, 

 and therefore was connected with it for more than 75 years. 



He retired from active practice in 1900, but annually took out 

 his license ; since his retirement he lived at 8 Fourth Avenue, 

 Hove, in which house he died. He was buried at Chislehurst, 

 Kent, where his wife, who predeceased him, was also buried. 



[B. 1). J.] 



Willi Ail Forsell Kirby was born at Leicester on the 14th 

 January, 1844, the eldest son of a banker in that city, and was 

 educated by private tutors ; like so many similarly trained, in 

 after life he lamented the loss of school experience and training. 

 At the age of seven he was brought to London on a visit, and 

 then saw the British Museum, in which institution so many hard- 

 working years were to be spent by him at a later period. On 

 removing a short distance outside Leicester, Kirby \A'as encouraged 

 by his mother to collect butterflies, thus calling forth the first 

 manifestation of the entomologist. 



Samuel Kirby died in 1854, and our late Fellow, then a boy of 

 ten, moved with the family to Burgess Hill, and soon afterwards 

 to Brighton. In spite of his tender years, he joined the Brighton 



