SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ANDREW DOWNS—PIERS. evil 
Mr. Downs claimed he had stuffed about eight hundred moose- 
heads and supplied King Victor Emmanuel with many thousand 
dollars’ worth of animals and specimens. At one time this sovereign 
had in his acclimatization garden at Pisa a number of living moose and 
caribou supplied by the Nova Scotian naturalist. Specimens of his 
taxidermic work were supplied other Huropean sovereigns, and large 
quantities went to the great museums and private collections on both 
sides of the Atlantic, and a number are incorporatsd in the collection 
of the Provincial Museum at Halifax. His own private collection of 
some fourteen cases, which he had at the time of his death, is still the 
property of his estate. 
He was one of those connected with the foundation of the Nova 
Scotian Institute of Natural Science, although he did not take up his 
membership until December, 1863. He was also a corresponding 
member of the Zoological Society of London, having been elected early 
in 1862. 
He published, unfortunately, but little. His papers, all in the 
“Transactions of the N. 8S. Institute of Natural Science,” were : 
On the Land Birds of Nova Scotia. Vol. i, pt. 3 (1864-5), pp. 
38-51 (read Jan. 9, 1865); vol. i, pt. 4 (1865-6), pp. 130-136 (read 
May 3, 1866). 
[An annotated list, giving a total of 91 nominal species, being the result of 
“forty years’ experiences in bird life.”’] 
Pied, or Labrador, Duck. Vol. vi, (Trans. for 1885-6), pp. 326-327 
(read May 10, 1886). 
[Notes on two specimens in Dalhousie College Museum, Halifax, and other 
notes regarding the occurrence of the species in Nova Scotia, &c. ] 
A Catalogue of the Birds of Nova Scotia. Vol. vii, (Trans. for 
1887-8), pp. 142-178. 
[An annotated list, giving 240 nominal species, the result of “ sixty-six 
years of practical field work.” Prepared in summer of 1888. The note to the 
title, ‘‘read May 14, 1888,” should be struck out. ] 
At a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May, 1888, he 
presented a paper “On the Birds and Mammals of Nova Scotia,” 
which was not, however, published. 
He was a man of very quiet and retiring disposition, disseminating 
his stores of knowledge mostly verbally or through a large correspon- 
Proc. & Trans. N. S. Inst. Scr., VOL. X. Proc.—L. 
