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persuasion was needed to get him to exhibit to the Zoological 

 Society on the 7th January, 1882, the marvellous series 

 of skins of Red Grouse [Lagopus scoticus) which he had 

 collected, almost all in one district, shewing an amount of 

 variation in the plumage of the cock-birds never before sus- 

 pected. But he will always be best remembered as joint 

 author with Mr. Harvie-Brown of the series of volumes on 

 the Vertebrate Fauna of the northern parts of the kingdom — 

 Sutherland and Caithness, the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, 

 Orkney and Shetland, — the volume on the latter group being 

 worked out with Mr. A. H. Evans as his coadjutor. Light- 

 hearted as a boy, vigorous and active, to all his friends 

 Buckley seemed likely to attain a good old age, but he never 

 regained his health after an attack of influenza in 1900, 

 while an affection which seized him in June 1902, acting on 

 impaired vitality, produced the fatal result of a few months 

 later. 



Mr. A. A. Le Sotjef, well known as the Director of the 

 Zoological and Acclimatisation Society's Gardens at Mel- 

 bourne, died on May 7th, 1902. He was born in England 

 in 1828, and emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1840. 

 He had an inborn taste for natural history, and, as Director 

 of the Zoological Gardens, had full opportunities for studying 

 animal life, of which he made good use. When Mr. Le Souef 

 entered upon his duties they were slight, and it is to him 

 that Australia owes one of the most complete gardens of the 

 kind. 



A third recent death is that of Dr. Carlos Berg, Director 

 of the Museum of Buenos Ayres. Berg was originally a 

 Bussian subject, and about 1873 joined Burmeister at 

 Buenos Ayres^becoming Director of the National Museum 

 on his death in 1892. He is succeeded by the well-known 

 palaeontologist, Dr. Ameghino. 



