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the centre of Ireland, the moiintaiiis of Sligo aud Leitriin, and 

 the hills of Tyrone. Occasionally he ventured far beyond his 

 native island, visiting Iceland (1^8 1), 8t. Kilda (18S3), the liocky 

 Mountains (1884), JSorth Koua (1886), the Shetlands (1890), and 

 the lonely cliff of Kockall (lN90), His fine physique and great 

 endurance stood him in good stead on those journeys, which 

 frequently involved hard walking and very rough quarters, and 

 they also account for his remarkable feats as a climber iu the 

 ISwiss i\lps, where iu 1876 he nscended within eleven days the 

 8chreckhorn, Einsteraarhorn, Jungfrau, and Matterhorn and 

 the intervening high passes. 



Most of his zoological reports appeared in the ' Zoologist,' 

 whilst his botanical articles found always a welcome place in the 

 'Journal of Botany.' His contributions to the ' Zoologist' begnn 

 as early as 1866 with a note on the food of the wood-])igeon, 

 whilst his earliest botanical observations were incorporated in the 

 "Recent Additions " to 'Cybele Hibernica ' (1872). The migra- 

 tion of birds iu Ireland had early attracted his attention, an 

 article on " Summer Migrants, co, Wicklow," in the 'Zoologist,' 

 dating back as far as 1867. To extend his sources of information 

 he put himself in 1882 into communication with the lighthouse 

 keepers on the Irish coasts, and tliis he kept up with increasing 

 success for many years. The results of his labours were laid 

 down iu the Reports of the Brihsh Association's Migration Com- 

 mittee for the Irish Section, for which he and More were re- 

 sponsible, and up to 1898, in his book ' The Migration of Birds,' 

 which was published in London and Dublin in 1900. His last 

 contribution to the ornis of Irehind was on the " Isest Material 

 used by Blackcap," in ' British Birds' in the year of his death. 

 For his numerous smaller articles aud notes the list of his 

 scientitic writings by C. B. Moffat iu the 'Irish Naturalist' for 

 1915 may be consulted. To those who knew him personally his 

 loss came as a sad blow. " Barrington," writes R. Lloyd Praeger, 

 in the 'Journal of Botany,' 1915, p. 366, "was a singularly 

 lovable man. His hearty friendliness, his seiise of humour, and 

 a charming modesty whirh characterized all his intercourse, com- 

 bined A\ith a boyish enthusiasm which time did not impair, made 

 his presence welcome and stimulating everywhere, and brought 

 him a host of friends. [O. S.] 



The death of Dr. Henky Chaelton Basxian on the 17th 

 November, 1915, at his residence Tairfieid, at Chesliam Bois, 

 Bucks, removes from our List one of the seniors, he having been 

 elected as far back as the 7th May, 1863, He Avas born at Truro 

 on 26th April, 1837, and leceived his academic degrees of M.A. 

 in 1861, and M.D. in 1866 at the University of London. 'The 

 Flora of Falmouth and surrounding parishes' apjieared as a paper 

 of 30 pages in the volume of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society 

 for 1856, a list compiled before he had reached his twentieth 

 year. In the year of his election as Fellow, his paper on the 



