14 Addenda and Corrigenda. 



Rev. William Little was a native of Jedburgh, (p. xxxiv.) 

 Sir John Richardson, the intrepid Arctic explorer, is buried 



at Grasmere, Westmoreland, (p. xxxviii.) 



We have to add here the name of the late Robert Service, 



than whom no one has done more to elucidate the Fauna of the 



Solway Area. 



Service, Robert, b. May 23rd, 1854, at Netherplace, near 

 Mauchline, Ayrshire, came to Maxwelltown at an early age. 

 Educated at the old Free Kirk School, he in due course 

 entered his father's business as a nurseryman. A keen field- 

 observer, all his spare time was spent in the study of the 

 fauna and flora of the Solway Area. In 1876 he was the 

 principal of those who re-organised the Dumfriesshire and 

 Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, and was 

 elected Secretary. In 1882 he was offered the appointment 

 of naturalist to an expedition undertaking the exploration of 

 Eastern Africa, which, however, he declined for private 

 reasons. In 1892 and 1895 he gave valuable evidence to the 

 Royal Commissions appointed respectively to investigate the 

 vole plague in Scotland, and the salmon fisheries of the Sol- 

 way. On the death of his father in 1901 the conduct of his 

 business devolved almost entirely on himself, but in 1903 he 

 was induced to act as honorary secretary and curator of the 

 Dumfries and Maxwelltown Museum. His work was more 

 than one man could overcome, and in 1910 he was stricken 

 with paralysis; his recovery was but partial, and he died on 

 May 8th, 1911. His knowledge of the local fauna and flora 

 was unsurpassed, and though his observations never took a 

 more concrete form, upwards of two hundred valuable papers 

 by him on these subjects are to be found in the scientific 

 magazines of his day. Personally, I may say that without 

 his generous assistance my book on The Birds of Dumfries- 

 shire could never have been written. 



I think there should be included a short notice of 



Strickland, Mrs Catharine Dorcas Maule, 2nd daughter 

 of Sir William Jardine, 7th Bart, of Applegarth (^. v. p. 

 xxxii.), b. June 22nd, 1825; m. July 23rd, 1845, Hugh 

 Edwin Strickland, the celebrated naturalist. Upwards of 

 fortv of the one hundred and one illustrations in her father's 



