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in Cambridge^ partly engaged in the work of tuition and 

 partly in scientific pursuits. In 1900 he was elected by 

 the Members of the Senate to the post of Esquire Bedell in 

 the University. 



His first essays at writing were articles in the ' History of 

 the Bewickshire Naturalists' Club' on tlie birds and plants 

 of the district, Avhile in 1884 he became a Fellow of the 

 Zoological Society of London, and Recorder of Aves for the 

 ' Zoological Record,^ He now had the inestimable advantage 

 of meeting the Ornithologists of London, and was greatly 

 assisted by Dr. Sclater and the authorities of the Natural 

 History Museum at S. Kensington, with Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 at the head of the Bird Department. With Mr. Howard 

 Saunders he formed an especially close friendship, and in his 

 company made several ornithological expeditions in our 

 islands. In 1879 he had become a Member of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, and this led to a further enlargement 

 of his circle of acquaintance, while subsequently he served 

 on the Committee and finally became Joint-Editor of ' The 

 Ibis' with Dr. Sclater in 1901. 



In 1888 Evans was invited by Mr. S. B. Wilson, of 

 Magdalene College, Cambridge, wlio had more than once 

 visited the Sandwich Islands in search of their peculiar 

 birds, to co-operate Avitli him in a projected work on the 

 Birds of the Sandwich Islands, which was published between 

 1890 and 1899, under the title of 'Aves Hawaiieuses.' He 

 next undertook to write the volume on ' Shetland ' for the 

 ' Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland ' series, under the Editorship 

 of Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley, and in concert with 

 the latter completed the work in 1899. Several visits were 

 at this time paid to the Shetland Islands, the fauna of which 

 needed thorough investigation, while journeys Avere also made 

 to Ross-shire and Roxburgh-shire, which resulted in short 

 papers in the ' Scottish Naturalist ' and later in its successor 

 the ' Annals of Scottish Natural History.' Evans joined the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1882 and became a Member 

 of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club associated Avitli it, 

 meeting on the Club's various expeditions many Scottish 



