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to say, lie Avas a supporter of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, although not an original member, and 

 in 1883-1< was offered and accepted the post of President. 

 When he joined in 1871, this Society was poorly supported 

 and little known, but he lived to see it rise in popularity 

 under the secretaryship of Dr. S. H. Long, and contributed 

 on at least one occasion to its Transactions. 



A Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1864, and Member 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union the same year, he was 

 easily senior in both these scientific bodies to any other 

 East Anglian. Of course, he made a point of attending the 

 meetings of the B. O. U. whenever possible, and at the 

 special Jubilee gathering, held in 1908, he was called upon 

 as the oldest surviving elected member to take the chair, 

 when lie had the honour of presenting medals to the sur- 

 viving original members of the Union — Mr. F. D. Godmaii, 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Mr. W. H. Hudleston, and Mr. Percy 

 Godman. The speech with which these presentations were 

 prefaced was a characteristic one, bringing in a reference 

 to Canon Tristram, his fellow-traveller in Palestine, and 

 another to his old college friend Alfred Newton. 



Like other naturalists, he took great interest in the 

 visitatioQ of Pallas's Sand-Grouse to this country in 1888, 

 and exhorted his friends to refrain from shooting them. 

 But besides exerting himself in this Avay he assisted the 

 late Mr. Southwell and the writer of these recollections 

 in compiling a correct list of occurrences — no easy task, 

 for they numbered over eleven hundred for the county of 

 Norfolk alone, besides many more in Suffolk. Unfoi^tunately 

 there was no proof of breeding, although various reports 

 were circulated as to the finding of eggs (see ' Zoologist,' 

 1888, p. 454), but only in one instance could it be verified. 



A farmer at Pickenham near Swaffham, who ought to 

 have known better, shot a Sand-Grouse as she rose from her 

 three eggs. These he took to Major Applethwaite of that 

 place, from whom and from the late Mr. Partridge this 

 information was obtained. Mr. Southwell enquired into 



