ORIGINAL MEMBERS. 75 



Colonel H. M. DRUMMOND-HAY. 



Henry Maurice Drummond, youngest son of Vice-Admiral 

 Sir Adam Drummond, K.C.H.^ of Meggincli Castle in the 

 county of Pertli, and Lady Charlotte_, daughter of the 4th 

 Duke of Athole, was born on June 7th, 1814, at Bath. From 

 his childhood he was an enthusiastic field-naturalist, and 

 when on leaving school he was sent abroad to study foreign 

 languages, in several of which he was consequently pi-oficient, 

 he spent much time in the workshop of M. Linder, at that 

 time the best authority on the ornithology of Switzerland and 

 the Alps. Here he practised taxidermy, which to the day of 

 his death Avas the favourite resource of his leisure hours, and 

 few could so successfully mount a bird in a natural and life- 

 like attitude, for few were so familiar with the actions of the 

 bird in life. In June 1833 Henry Drummond received his 

 commission in the 42nd Royal Highlanders (the Black 

 Watch) , in which regiment he served for twenty years in 

 Ireland, at Malta, Corfu, Bermuda, and Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia. During all this time he was unwearied in studying 

 the ornithology, ichthyology, and botany of his different 

 stations and of their neighbouring countries, and lost no 

 opportunity of making excursions into districts which were 

 at that time untouched by the naturalist. He became a 

 regular correspondent of Sir W. Jardine, of Yarrell, and 

 of Strickland, who visited him in Corfu. He contributed 

 several papers, recording his observations, to the periodicals 

 of the day. Among these are: — "Notes of a Sojourn of 

 Four Years in Corfu. The Birds of Corfu and the Ionian 

 Islands,'^ Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1843, vol. xii. ; '^Two Months 

 in the Island of Crete," ibid., being the first notice of 

 Cretan ornithology since Belon ; '^ A short Excursion in 

 Macedonia," Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846, vol. xviii., a paper 

 read at the British Association's meeting at Cork. In these 



