Mr. Harrison Weir t F.R.H.S., etc. 253 



and illustrations for numberless books, magazines, etc., has been a 

 frequent contributor to the Illustrated London Neivs (and is the 

 oldest survivor of the original staff), the Graphic, and the Field % 

 and was often to be seen at the London and Birmingham Shows 

 (as I well remember watching him when, as a boy, I was occasionally 



From photo by C. E. Corke, Sevenoaks 



MR. HARRISON WEIR, F.R.H.S. 



one of the visitors) sketching the dogs for the pictures to appear in 

 those papers. 



I need not tell my readers that he has not confined his attention 

 to dogs, as he illustrated many other kinds of animals in Wood's 

 " Natural History," published by Routledge, and we know from his 

 book, " Our Cats," how admirably he draw's those animals, which, I 



