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Colonel S. R. TICKELL. 



Samuel Richard Tickell was educated for tlie army, Avliich 

 lie entered in 1829; but after having served with the 31st 

 Bengal Native Infantry in the Kol campaign of 1832-33, he 

 exchanged a military life for civil employment till he finally 

 retired in 18(35. The wild districts on the S.W. frontier of 

 Bengal, in which, with the exception of a few months spent 

 in Nepal, he was em^iloyed from 1834 to 1817, offered a fine 

 field for a naturalist's exploration, and the ' Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal^ for this period contains several 

 contributions from Tickell, both ethnological and zoological. 

 His paper on Oology in volume 17 of ' The Field' newspaper 

 gives the first published observations on. the nests and eggs 

 of the birds of the plains of India, and his paper on Manis 

 pentadactyla and its anatomy is prominently referred to by 

 Jerdon in his ' ]\Iammals of India/ He also contributed a 

 paper " On the Hornbills of India and Burma " to ' The 

 Ibis' for 1864 (vol. vi. p. 173). 



In 1847 Tickell was transferred to Arakau, and the rest 

 of his service was spent in this ])rovince and in British 

 Burma. It was there for the most part that he worked at 

 the zoological drawings and memoirs which just before his 

 death he presented to the Zoological Society of London. At 

 one time he had projected with Blyth an illustrated Avork on 

 Indian Natural History. His later contributions to the 

 Bengal Journal comprise among others the description of a 

 new genus of the Gadidai, a full account of the habits of 

 Hylobates lar, and an interesting itinerary of a journey which 

 he made with Mr. Parish up the Altcran River. Appended 

 to this paper are notes containing much valuable zoological 

 and botanical information. 



Col. Tickell, on his retirement, settled in France and the 

 Channel Islands. An inflammatory attack, the consequence 



