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of natural history ; and the friendship thus formed was re- 

 newed when Dr. Jerdon retired from the service and returned 

 to England in 1869. At the commencement of the Sutlej 

 campaign of 1845— iG Lord A. Hay was appointed A.D.C. to 

 Lord Hardinge, the Commander-in-Chief, and was present 

 on his staff at the final decisive battle of Sobraon. On the 

 9th March, 1846, the treaty was concluded by which the 

 whole of the hill-territory west of the Sutlej and Cashmere 

 was handed over to the British ; and a few days afterwards 

 the second treaty, by which the Kashmir portion was trans- 

 ferred to theMaharajah Gholab Singh, was executed. Shortly 

 after this Lord Arthur Hay, with other officers, among whom 

 were Lord Elphinstone, Lord James Brown, Capt. H. Bates, 

 and Lieut. A. Hardinge, obtained leave to visit this part of 

 the Himalayas ; and after being received with marked cour- 

 tesy by the Maharajah at his ancestral residence of Jummoo, 

 they crossed by the Banihal Pass into the valley of Kashmir. 

 After spending a month there. Lord Arthur Hay and Lord 

 Hardinge started for Ballastan, or Little Tibet, via the Ki- 

 shengunga valley and the Dessai plains, and, after visiting 

 Skardo, travelled on to Leh, in Ladakh, and thence through 

 Rupshu to cross the high pass the Parang La (19,000 feet), 

 finally ending their tour at Simla. The party met with a good 

 deal of trouble and vexatious delay in this latter part of the 

 journey, which at that period was of a venturesome, if not of 

 a dangerous nature. Lord Arthur Hay was throughout this 

 journey engaged in his favourite study, and made a large col- 

 lection of the birds of the country. 



During his stay in India, Lord Arthur Hay, although much 

 interested in natural history, and on terms of intimacy with 

 Dr. Jerdon, Mr. Blyth, Sir Walter Elliot, and other Indian 

 naturalists, gave very little of the results of his studies to the 

 public. We can only find published during this period the 

 two articles in the ' Madras Journal ' which stand at the head 

 of the subjoined list. 



During the next period of his life. Lord Arthur Hay, who 

 assumed the title of Viscount Walden in 1862, on the death 

 of his elder brother, Lord Gifibrd, was too much engaged 



