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many valuable communications to ' The Ibis/ amongst which 

 the introduction to the British List of the Isabelline Wheat- 

 ear {Saxicola isabeUind) and the Frigate-Petrel {Pelagodroma 

 marina) deserve special mention. He also wrote papers for 

 the ' Zoologist,' the ' Annals of Scottish Natural History,' and 

 the ' Field/ as well as the scientific portions of the volumes 

 on '^ Grouse/' " Partridge/' and '^ Pheasant " in Longman's 

 'Fur and Feather' series; but his most important works 

 Avere the 'Fauna of Lakeland' (Edinburgh, 1892) and a 

 unique and exhaustive volume on the ' History of Fowling ' 

 published in 1897. Macpherson was a thorough naturalist, 

 and his varied sources of information were always freely placed 

 at the service of his friends, by whom his loss is severely 

 felt, and by few more than by the writer of this brief 

 notice. — H. S. 



Mr. William Doherty. — The well-known zoological col- 

 lector, William Doherty, whose decease we have already 

 mentioned, succumbed to an attack of dysentery in the 

 Railway Hospital at Nairobi, British East Africa, on the 25th of 

 May last year. Doherty was born in 1857 at Mount Auburn, 

 Cincinnati, where his parents are said to be still living. It 

 was not until 1882, after lengthened travels through Europe, 

 Asia Minor, Persia, and Lidia, that he began to devote his 

 energies mainly to Natural History. He soon became kiu)wn 

 as an excellent collector and acute observer, and wrote several 

 papers in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' 

 which attracted much notice, but at tliat time he only worked 

 at Insects and Land-shells. Mr. Hartert, who has kindly 

 assisted us in preparing these notes, met with Doherty in 

 the Malay Peninsula in 1888, and travelled in his company 

 through Assam and the Naga Hills. Doherty came to Tring in 

 1895, when prei aring to start on his last great expedition to 

 the eastern tropics, and was there persuaded to add birds to 

 his field of operations. The great success to which he attained 

 in this branch of Zoology is well known to all who have studied 

 the numerous articles on his bird-collections published in the 

 ' Novitates Zoologicae.' 



