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self-seeking and transparent honesty, all appealed to even a 

 comparative stranger. Physically he was a magnificent 

 example of a " hard " man ; he was beautifully propor- 

 tioned, with a chest of extraordinary depth and breadth, 

 and he is described as the best white runner that Matabele 

 had ever seen. Even in the recent campaign he enjoyed 

 perfect health, and was the only officer of his party not laid 

 aside by illness. Thoroughly inured to hardship, he with- 

 stood the rigours of the campaign better than men less than 

 half his age. 



Scions married in the nineties Marie Catherine Gladys, 

 a daughter of Canon Maddy of Down Hatherley, Gloucester- 

 shire, who survives him with two sons — the elder now 

 serving in the Royal Flying Corps, the younger about to 

 enter Sandhurst. 



At a meeting of the British Ornithologists* Club on 

 January 17 a proposal was made and unanimously carried 

 that the B. O. U. should co-operate with other Societies 

 to form a committee to promote a national memorial to 

 Capt. Selous. Further details of this matter will be found 

 on p. 280. 



AuBERON Thomas Herbert, Baron Lucas 

 AND Dingwall. 



Captain The Lord Lucas was reported as missing after 

 making a flight over the German lines on November 4, 

 1916, and has since been officially returned as killed. 



The only surviving son of the Hon. Aubej'on Herbert, of 

 the Old House, Ptingwood, and of Lady Florence Annabel, 

 daughter of the 6th Earl Cowper, Auberon Thomas Herbert 

 was born in 1876, and was educated at Bedford Grammar 

 School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1905 he succeeded 

 his maternal uncle, the 7th Earl Cowper, as the 8th Baron 

 Lucas and the 5th Baron Dingwall, the earldom becoming 

 extinct with the death of his uncle. He rowed for two years 

 in the Oxford boat, and held several Under-Secretaryships in 

 the late Liberal government, culminating in the President- 

 ship of the Board of Agriculture, to which he was appointed 



