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necessarily became shorter and shorter, often only two or three 
days in length—days devoted for the most part to the 
verification of an innumerable mass of references to a mountain 
of books-—while he left Mr Hinton to do some of the 
laborious comparisons of skulls and teeth, for which he had 
no longer the time. This collaboration has had the fortunate 
result that Mr Hinton is now available, and has kindly under- 
taken to finish the remaining parts of the 7zstory of British 
Mammats. 
It may be a convenience to naturalists for the formal 
outlines of our author’s life to be recorded here :— 
Born 1871; only surviving son of Captain Samuel Barrett- 
Hamilton of Kilmanock, Campile, Co. Wexford, Ireland. 
Educated at Harrow (captain of football, 1890; played 
for Old Harrovians for several years). Trinity College, 
Cambridge (first class Nat. Sci. Tripos, 1894). Called to 
the Bar, 1896. Member of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Com- 
mission, 1896-7. Served in the Boer War, 1901-2; Captain, 
1902. Major 5th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, 1905. J.P., Co. 
Wexford. Married 1903, Maud Charlotte, only daughter of 
F. S. Eland, Esq., of Ravenshill, Transvaal, by whom he 
leaves six children. Died in South Georgia, 17th Jan., 1914. 
As a personality, Barrett-Hamilton was one of the most 
pleasant companions it has ever been our good fortune to 
meet. Warm-hearted, full of fun, known to all of us by a 
nickname, ready to engage in anything from a game of 
football at the back of the Museum to a discussion on 
nomenclature or dentition, the happy-minded lovable Irishman 
was a favourite with the whole staff of the Museum. Deeply 
will he be missed by all of us, and by none more than the 
writer of this short notice, who loses in him a dear and 
intimate friend of twenty years’ standing. 
OLDFIELD THOMAS. 
