LINNEA>'^ SOCIETY OF LONBOK. 27 



in establishing the Cardiff Muuicipal Muse\im, a*id gave generously 

 towards it; he was also a governor of the Welsh National 

 Museum. He is credited with the addition of two sp3cies to the 

 list of British birds — the Rusty Grackle, Scolecopliagus ferru- 

 f/ineus, and Pallas's Gro'at G-rey Shrike, Lanius major {cf. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1S81, p. 968) ; also a new species of Vole, known since 

 as Drone's Vole or the Skomer Bank-lMouse, Evotoimjs skomerensis, 

 Barrett-Hamilton, described in Proc. E. Irish Acad. 1903, 

 p. 316. 



Besides his devotion to local zoology, he was known as an 

 adept in porcelain, and his knowledge was constantly invoked by 

 collectors in a wide circle. He died on the 14th July, 1914, at 

 the age of nearly 82 ; be became a Fellow of our Societ}' on the 

 21st December, 1876. [B. D. J.] 



Edward William Hunt Holdsworth, who died recently at 

 Dartmouth, aged eighty-six, became a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society in 1856. His zoological interests were wide, but were 

 centred chiefly in marine zoology and especially fisheries, a subject 

 on which he was an authority of repute. He was for some years 

 connected with the management of the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens in Regent's Park, and contributed several papers on 

 marine zoology to the Zoological Society's Proceedings, dealing 

 chiefly with actiuians and other coelenterates, and in 1860 he 

 published a handbook to the Fish House in the Zoological Gardens. 

 Later he acted as secretary to the Royal Commission, of which 

 Huxley was a member, and which, between 1863 and 1865, 

 travelled round the British coasts in order to enquire into the 

 conditions of British Fisheries. Subsequently he went to Ceylon 

 in order to conduct an official enquiry into the pearl-fisheries. 

 In addition to investigations on the marine fauna of Ceylon, he 

 published two memoirs on the birds of that island. In 1874 he 

 ])ublished au important and \\ell-known work on ' Deep-Sea 

 Fishing and Fishing Boats,' an account of the practical working 

 of the various fisheries around the British Islands, with illustra- 

 tions and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use. 

 In 1883 he took au active part in the International Fisheries 

 Exhibition, and published a memoir on the Sea Fisheries of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. When the Marine Biological Association 

 was founded he served on its Council for some yeai's. [E. A. M.] 



List of Holdsworth's Papers in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855-80. 



1. Scolanthus sphceroidcs, 1855. 



•_'. Two new spp. Actinia. 



•J. Actinia venosa. 



4. Elect r a verticillatn. 



o. Zoanthus Couchii. 



6. Peachin kastata. 



7. Actinije. 



8. Aurelia aurita. 



