638 Obituary. 



Edward Alston, Norway and tlie Delta of the Dwina and 

 the White Sea, and in 1875 he accompanied Henry Seebohm 

 to the valley of the Petchora River. A complete account of 

 these journeys are to be found in his 'Travels of a Naturalist 

 in Northern Europe/ published in 1905. 



In a small yacht, which he had specially built for the 

 service, he made cruises for many summers accompanied 

 by ornithological and scientific friends, round the coasts of 

 Scotland, visiting the remoter islands, stacks and skerries, 

 many difficult of access, and thus acquired an accurate 

 knowledge of the fauna of these outlying parts of Scotland, 

 of which fidl use was made in the series of faunal works. 



The first volume of the series, " The Fauna of Sutherland,'^ 

 published in 1887, and several succeeding ones were written 

 in collaboration with T. E. Buckley, one with the help of 

 H, A. Macphers'on (both of whom predeceased him). 

 Altogether eleven volumes were issued, the last being the 

 "Fauna of the Tweed area," written by Mr. A. H. Evans 

 and published in 1911, who previously in conjunction with 

 Buckley wrote the one relating to the Shetlands. 



Harvie-Brown also contributed a large number of papers 

 and short articles to he ' Zoologist,' the ' Annals of Scot- 

 tish Natural History ' subsequently renamed the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist,' of which he was for many years joint-editor, 

 and to the •' Proceedings ' of the Royal Physical Society of 

 Edinburgh and the Natural History Society of Glasgow. 

 In 1873 he was elected a Member of the B. O. U. and con- 

 tributed to * The Ibis ' a number of papers, a list of the 

 more important of which is here given. 



The subject of migration was one which for many years 

 occupied much of his attention and entailed an immense 

 amount of correspondence. It was due partly to his 

 initiation and mainly to his co-operation that a scheme 

 was developed by a committee of the British Association 

 for enlisting the services of the men in charge of lightships 

 and lighthouses to record observations and collect the wings 

 of birds striking the lanterns. The first report of this series, 

 for the autumn of 1879, was published in the ' Zoologist,' 



