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fortune, he resided at Cambridge for several years after he 

 took his degree at that University, and his rooms became 

 the rallying-point of the local naturalists, for he was an 

 ardent ornithological and entomological collector. He was 

 induced to take a strong interest in native education in India, 

 and, accepting the office of Principal of a college established 

 by the Rajah of Cochin, one of the independent sovereigns^ 

 he left England about 1861, He at first attempted to con- 

 tinue his pursuits in India, but soon found his duties too 

 onerous to render that possible, and, though retaining to the 

 last his interest in Natural History, his connection with it 

 practically ceased from the time of his departure, and in 

 1867 he withdrew from the B.O.U. His rather large 

 collection of stuffed birds was dispersed by sale at Stevens''s 

 rooms in 1867 — on which occasion a purchaser " borrowed'' 

 the manuscript catalogue, which, to the detriment of other 

 buyers, has not since been seen. His collections of birds' 

 eggs and British insects he gave to the Museum of the 

 University of Cambridge. Mr. Sealy came home some 

 three or four years ago with the intention of remaining 

 in this country ; but so earnest an appeal was made to 

 him to return to the scene of his former labours that 

 he consented to go out to India again in 1893, and there- 

 fore had not been much more than a twelvemonth in 

 that country w^hen an apoplectic seizure terminated his 

 life. Mr. Sealy was the first to ascertain and announce the 

 fact that Porzana bailloni was a native of England^ it having 

 been previously supposed to be but a casual visitor. This 

 he did in 'The Zoologist' for 1859 (p. 6329), but beside 

 some other notes in the same journal we believe his only 

 contribution to ornithological literature was his ' Classified 

 List of the Names and Latin Synonyms of the British Birds' 

 (Cambridge, 1853). 



Edward Hargitt, R.L, M.B.O.U., was born on May 3rd, 

 1835, at Edinburgh, where his father, the late Charles 

 Hargitt, a well-known professor and composer of music, then 

 resided. As the latter possessed a notable gallery of pictures 



