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and was compiled with the help of the la«^e John Cordeanx, 

 who was responsible for the portion relating to the east coast 

 of England, while Harvie-Brown undertook the collection 

 of statistics for the east coast of Scotland. Subsequently 

 annual reports were issued separately for eight years, 

 culminating in the admirable digest of the whole prepared 

 by Mr. Eagle Clarke and published in 1912. He was also 

 j-esponsible for the English translation of Gatke's 'Heligo- 

 land^ and himself prepared the preface to the edition of 1895. 



In January 1897 a great calamity occurred to Harvie- 

 Brown, when the greater part of Dunipace House was 

 destroyed by fire and all the valuable collections of birds 

 and eggs, together with those of his friend Col. Feilden, 

 were lost as well as many other valuables. Luckily the 

 library was contained in a separate wing which escaped 

 destruction, but the collections could never be replaced. 



Harvie-Brown was J.P. for Stirlingshire and a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and an Hon. Life-Member of the 

 American Ornithologists^ Union. In 1912 lie received the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen 

 in recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of the 

 Scottish Fauna. He was also awarded the gold medal of 

 the French Acclimatization Society for his memoir on the 

 Capercaille in Scotland. 



Harvie-Brown was a prolific author and his publications 

 extended over a period of nearly fifty years. His first 

 ornithological paper was one published in the 'Zoologist' 

 for 1866 on the birds of his native place, Dunipace in 

 Stirlingshire. The last we have noticed is one on the "Past 

 and Present Distribution of the Fulmar," published partly 

 in the 'Zoologist' and partly in the ' Scottish Naturalist.' 



In the list appended are included only the more impoi'- 

 tant papers which appeared in ' The Ibis ' and the works 

 separately published : — 



Notes from Archangel (with E. K. Alston). Ibis, 1873, p. 54. 

 On the Birds of Transylvania (with C. G. Danford). Ibi.^, 1875, 

 pp. 188, 291, 412. 



