technique. The illustrations he prepared for this Volume were the very last upon which 

 he was employed. We deeply regret that his health, which had long been a cause of 

 anxiety to his friends, broke down completely in the Spring of 1913, and his illness 

 terminated fatally on the 4th of September, in his forty-eighth year. Before he died Mr 

 Briggs had the great satisfaction of knowing that one of his characteristic river pictures 

 was hung in the National Gallery of British Art, London ; it having been purchased by 

 the Royal Academy of Art under the terms of the Chantry Bequest. This was his last 

 exhibited picture. 



Mr P. D. Malloch has few rivals in scientific photography of fish. We owe sincere 

 thanks, also, to Mr Alfred Gilbey and other gentlemen who have contributed prints and 

 photographs for reproduction. 



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