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Ornithology some eighty -two items are credited to him. 

 Altogether, his contributions to scientific hterature 

 amount to close on 250, if we include articles in periodicals 

 such as The Zoologist (in which his first note appeared 

 in 1862), The Proceedings of the Physical Society of Edin- 

 burgh, The Transactions of the Natural History Society 

 of Glasgow, The Ibis, etc. in addition to his books. Of 

 these latter, his series of volumes on the Vertebrate Fauna 

 of certain areas in Scotland are perhaps the most monu- 

 mental, and though in several of these he was assisted 

 by his friend T. E. Buckley, and later by others, it must 

 be remembered that he was the originator and mainstay 

 of this series of publications. His Capercaillie in Scotland 

 is the standard work on the subject and is very t\'pical 

 of the author's style and erudition. With Jolui Cordeaux 

 he shares the credit of initiating the enquiry midertaken 

 in 1879 by a committee of which he was a member, re- 

 presenting the east coast of Scotland, of the British 

 Association to investigate the phenomena of bird migra- 

 tion as observed at lighthouses and light-ships. He was 

 also the founder, owner, and joint editor of The Ayinals 

 of Scottish Natural History till it became The Scottish 

 Naturalist, when he eagerly lent this new publication 

 his best services. The results of his ornithological ex- 

 periences on the Continent were duly chronicled in the 

 Ibis, and he published, in 1905, his Travels of a Naturalist 

 in Northern Europe. His systematic use of [square 

 brackets] for doubtful records cannot be claimed as an 

 imiovation, but their use certainly forms a characteristic 

 feature of his Vertebrate Faunas ; he was tremendously 

 keen on the utility and significance of these symbols, 

 and his constant practice as to their use might well be 

 universally adopted as a recognized custom. 



Harvie-Brown was a Justice of the Peace for Stirling- 

 shire, he was also a Fellow of the Zoological Societies of 

 London and of Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh, one of the oldest Members (at the time of 

 his death) of the British Ornithologists' Union, and 



