148 Obituary. 



Captain Francis Henry Salvin, who died on the 2nd of 

 October in his 87th year, was the son of William Thomas 

 Salvin, of Croxdale Hall, near Durham, while the family were 

 also owners of Burn Hall in the immediate neighbourhood. 

 II is great-nephew is now in possession of Croxdale Hall, 

 which has descended in an unbroken line from father to 

 son since 1392, a length of tenure hardly to be equalled in the 

 kingdom. Salvin was educated at Ampleforth in Yorkshire, 

 and, through his father's marriage with Maria Weston, sub- 

 sequently came into possession of the Sutton Estate, near 

 Guildford, with its well-known Elizabethan mansion of Sutton 

 Place. An ardent lover of nature, he made the habits of the 

 animals around him his constant study, and was well known 

 to ornithologists not only for his trained Cormorants and their 

 fishing abilities, but also for his writings on Falconry. In 

 1855 he published, in conjunction with the late W. Brodrick, 

 of Bel ford in Northumberland, e Falconry in the British 

 Islands ' (with illustrations by Joseph Wolf), of which a 

 second edition was issued in 1873; and in 1859, associated 

 with Mr. (1. A. Freeman, 'Falconry, its History, Claims, and 

 Practice/ with a chapter on " Fishing with Cormorants/' 

 The latter part of his life was passed in quiet country 

 pursuits at Sutton. 



Edward Neale, who for nearly twenty years had been a 

 member of the British Ornithologists' Union, passed away, 

 after a long and painful illness, on the 11th November last, 

 at the age of seventy. By profession an artist, he devoted 

 his talents more specially to the delineation of Animal Life, 

 and painted chietiy sporting and Natural History subjects. 

 The illustrations in the late E. Booth's i Rough Notes on 

 Birds, &c.' were executed by him, as were also several plates 

 for Dresser's ' Birds of Europe.' Neale was devoted to his 

 art, and continued his work even when seriously ill and 

 confined to his bed, while he bore his sufferings with the 

 greatest fortitude. 



