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Works not included in serial Literature. 



1883. Zoology of Food Fishes (Ilandb. Internat. Fish Exhib.)- London. 

 1885. An Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology. With a Preface by 



Professor Huxley, P.R.S. 

 An Atlas of Practical Elementary Zootomy. Reyision of the 



preceding yolume. (1902.) 

 1889. Huxley and Martin's Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary 



Biology : Reyised edition, extended and edited by G. B. Howes 



and D.'n. Scott. 

 1893. Wells (H. G.). Textbook of Biolocy ; with an Introduction by 



G. B. H. (Another edition in 1899.) 

 1895. Wiedersheim's Structure of Man, an Index to his Past History ; 



translated by II. and M. Bernard : the Translation edited_and 



annotated and a Preface wiitten by G. B. Howes. 

 [Life of William Kitchen Parker], Diet. Nat. Biog. xliii. pp. 290-2. 

 1904. St. George Mivait : in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal 



Society. Part i, pp. 95-100. 



Lieut.-Col. Leonard Howard Lotd Irby was born in 1836, 

 and received his education at Eugby, and at the age of 18 he 

 joined the 90th Light Infantry, and with it proceeded to the 

 Crimea, there serving till the fall of Sebastopol. He published 

 his notes on Crimean birds observed at the theatre of war in the 

 ' Zoologist ' for 1857, but he was in India at the outbreak of the 

 Mutiny and, with the present Lord Wolseley of the same regiment, 

 took part in the relief of Lucknow. In 1867 Irby was transferred 

 to the 74th Highlanders, retiring from the service about eight 

 years later. 



In 1861 he published in the ' Ibis' his "Notes on Birds observed 

 in Oudli and Kumaon." Birds were his favourite but not exclu- 

 sive study, and in 1875 he produced his ' Ornithology of the Straits 

 of Gibraltar,' from materials acquired during his frequent visits 

 to Spain aTid the opposite coast; a second edition came out 

 in 1895, containing an account of the Lepidoptera of the 

 region. His other principal book appeared in 1887 as ' British 

 Birds : Key-list,' in four years reaching a second edition. He 

 joined the Zoological Society in 1873, and for many years served 

 on the Council of that body ; our own Society he joined on 

 21st June, 1888. He took much interest in the setting up of the 

 life groups of birds at the British Museum, Cromwell Eoad, in 

 some measure furnishing the material by his own skill in shooting. 

 He died on the 14th May, 1905, soon after his return from 

 Malaga, where he had passed the winter in familiar and delightful 

 surroundings. [B. D. J .] 



Sir Hugh Low was born 10th May, 1824, and died at Alassio on 

 18th April, in the present year. After an education at private 

 schools he obtained an appointment in the Hon. East India 

 Company's service. But on his way to take this up, he became 

 acquainted with Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Brooke, and the 

 intimate friendship between them which resulted, diverted the 



