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Cambridge, where lie took his degree of B.A. in 1861 and 

 M.A. in 1864. He was ordained in 1870, and acted as his 

 fatiier's curate for four years before succeeding him in the 

 living which was his only cure. 



His interest in Natural History was very considerable, and 

 in his younger days, accompanied by Mr. Upclier and the late 

 Mr. G. G. Fowler, of Gunton Hall, who was for many years 

 a Member of the Union, he made an excursion to Iceland, 

 and visited the north-western peninsula, a portion of the 

 island not previously explored by any English traveller. 

 The results of this visit, both ornithological and otherwise, 

 are related in a little book, ' The North-west Peninsula of 

 Iceland,' published in 1867 (see ' Ibis,' 1867, p. 239). 



Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Upcher subsequently accompanied 

 Canon Tristram to Palestine in 1864-5, and the results of 

 that expedition will be found recounted in the pages of ' The 

 Ibis ' for 1865 and onwards, where Mr. Sheppard's name is 

 often mentioned. 



The only other ornithological publication with which 

 Mr. Sheppard's name is connected is ' Notes on the Birds of 

 Kent/ published in 1907, in which he collaborated with 

 Messrs. R. J, Balstou and E. Bartlett. 



Mr. Sheppard had a fine collection of Ducks, both British 

 and foreign, the foundation of which was made during his 

 visit to Iceland. Eor nearly half a. century he had been the 

 father of his parish, and was greatly respected and beloved 

 by all the people of his neighbourhood, though he was not 

 perhaps so well known among the younger ornithologists 

 of to-day as he deserved to be. 



Herbekt Huntington Smith. 



Mr. Smith, wlio met with his death through a railway 

 accident on the 22nd of March, 1919, at Tuscaloosa, Alabanui, 

 U.S.A.j v^'as Curator of the Alahama Museum of Natural 

 History, and one of the earliest and most experienced of 

 American field-naturalists. 



Between 1881 and 1886 Mr. Smith, accompanied by iiis 



