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Fergus Menteith Ogilvie. 



We mucli regret to report the death from pneumonia of 

 Mr. Ogilvie, which took place at his house at Oxford on 

 17 January last. 



Born in Loudon on 2 November, 1861, he was the sou 

 of Alexander Ogilvie, and was educated at Rugby and 

 Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. and M.B. He was 

 also F.R.C.S. England and L.R.C.P. London. He owned a 

 beautiful estate in Argyllshire, Barcaldine, which formerly 

 belonged to his mother, and a house at SIzewell in Suffolk. 



Mr. Ogilvie became an ophthalmic surgeon and settled in 

 Oxford in 1899, where he practised in partnership with 

 Mr. Doyiie. On giving up private practice in 1905, he was 

 appointed Consulting-Surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital, 

 a post which he retained till his death. It was his mother 

 who founded the Margaret Ogilvie Readership in Ophthal- 

 mology in the University of Oxford. 



• From his boyhood Mr. Ogilvie was devoted to the study 

 of birds. British birds and their habits especially interested 

 him, and much of his spare time was devoted to field-work. 

 He was cautious in accepting the evidence of others, and did 

 not do so unless quite satisfied in his own mind as to their 

 validity. His interest and attention was specially devoted 

 to the sea- and shore-birds : ducks and geese, waders and 

 game-birds — upon all of which he was a very reliable 

 authority. 



His collection of British birds, beautifully set up^ is very 

 fine and comprehensive, and was exhibited in a special 

 museum-room erected at his home in Suffolk. He had also 

 an extensive series of skins, also admirably prepared and 

 carefully labelled, and forming one of the most important 

 private collections of the kind in Great Britain. 



His natural reserve and dislike of ostentation militated 

 against even his more intimate friends gaining a real 

 insight into the trend of his thoughts and the extent and 

 nature of his observations. He seems to have published 



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