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Mr. a. H. EVANS. 



Arthur Humble Evans was boru on Februar}' 23rcl, 1855. 

 He is the eldest son oi: the late Rev, Hugh Evans, of 

 Scremerston in Northumberland, who in early life devoted 

 himself to Botany and Ornithology, and subsequently became 

 one of the most noted Horticulturists of the Eastern 

 Borders. Under such guidance Evans naturally inclined to 

 scientific pursuits, while he was exceptionally fortunate in 

 being intimate with many of the earlier jMembers of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists^ Club, the oldest Field Club of its 

 description in Britain. 



Educated in the first place at home and at Durham School, 

 he had ample opportunities of indulging his taste for Natural 

 History in the two northern counties with their wealth of 

 plant- and bird-life, while he possessed in his kind friends of 

 the Border country and later in Canon Tristram of Durham 

 acquaintances ever ready to help and encourage the learner. 

 At school he gained the annual prize for a Herbarium, and 

 began to collect birds^ eggs, some of which came out of the 

 consignments sent from Iceland to the well-known Curator 

 of the Durham JMuseum, Mr. W. Procter. 



Gaining a scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge, he 

 continued his scientific studies at that University, where he 

 had the further good fortune to make the acquaintance of 

 W. A. Forbes, of St. John^s College, even then a distinguished 

 Naturalist, who introduced him to Professor Alfred Newton 

 at one of his celebrated Sunday evening gatherings. Many 

 and valuable Avere the consequences of this introduction, 

 while the men of mark, so constantly to be met with at 

 Magdalene College, served as admirable models to the 

 young students. 



Evans proceeded to the B.A. degree in 1879 and in due 

 course became an M.A. : he has since resided continuously 



