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lie volunteered at once and proceeded there in July 1916. 

 He was given the command of a Machine Gun Battery, and 

 was shortly afterwards killed in action at Nasiriyeh on 

 September 11, 1916, when covering an infantry retreat. 

 He was buried the same evening in the cemetery at that 

 place. His Colonel writes : — " It is a great blow to us all, 

 and to the Machine Gun Coy. to lose such a good officer. 

 There was nothing he did not know about his work, and his 

 cheery manner infected those around him and the men 

 would do anything for him.'^ 



Samuel Gilbkkt Scott. 



We regret to hear that Canon Scott, who was elected a 

 Member of the Union in 1907, died suddenly on Kovember 5 

 last. Born at Brighton on May 20, 1847, Scott was educated 

 at Brighton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where 

 he secured a deniyship. Entering the Church in 1873 he 

 held several preferments and was Rector of Havant in 

 Hampshire from 1892 to 1915. He was also Rural Dean, 

 1900 to 1915, and appointed Hon. Canon of Winchester in 

 1905. His activities in the ecclesiastical world were very con- 

 siderable, and he was very well known and highly respected 

 in the south of Hampshire. He was interested in wild-life 

 of every sort, and made frequent excursions to Scotland for 

 fishing and for observing birds, tiiuugh, so far as we are 

 aware, he never published in ornithology. 



Ralph William Frankland Payne-Gallwey. 



Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey of Thirkleby Park, Thirsk, who 

 was a Member of the Union from 1885 to 1898, died on 

 November 24 last at the age of sixty-eight. Born in 1848 

 the tldest son of the second Baronet, whom he succeeded 

 in 1881, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey was educated at Eton. 

 He was a very famous wild-fowler, and it was on his 

 knowledge of the habits and haunts of wild-fowl, gained 

 through many years shooting and trapping, that his claim 



