31.2 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



Walter Grimwood Doggett, whose death has lately been 

 reported to the Foreign Office, was 27 years of age. He 

 was the son of Mr. F. Doggett, taxidermist, of Cambridge. 



Mr. Doggett was selected in 1899 by Dr. Sclater to 

 accompany Sir Harry Johnston's Special Mission to 

 Uganda as collector. He was an admirable photographer 

 and many of his beautiful photographs adorn Sir Harry 

 Johnston's book on the Uganda Protectorate. He was 

 also a very clever draughtsman, and might have risen 

 to some little eminence through his paintings alone. He 

 was a very good shot with the rifle, and a horseman that 

 could ride any mount. In fact, before he started for 

 Uganda, he had been galloper to the commanding officer of a 

 volunteer regiment. All who travelled with him in tropical 

 Africa noted him as remarkable for a good temper that 

 scarcely anything could ruffle, and a cheery optimism under 

 all circumstances. After being for some time in Sir Harry 

 Johnston's service, he entered that of the Uganda Adminis- 

 tration, and was thereupon attached as naturalist to the 

 Anglo-German Boundary Commission. Accompanying this 

 Commission, he studied the fauna and flora and collected 

 specimens on the banks of the lliver Kagera, the ultimate 

 source of the Nile and the most important affluent of the 

 Victoria Nyanza, which it enters on the west coast, just 

 under the Equator. Mr. Doggett was drowned by the 

 capsizing of a canoe when attempting to cross the Kagera. 



Biological investigations in Africa have sustained a serious 

 loss in this abrupt termination of a promising career, as, 

 although Mr. Doggett had not much scientific knowledge, lie 

 was an admirable collector, and his anthropological studies 

 were becoming of distinct scientific value. His name has 

 already been attached to not a few species of animals (chiefly 

 Invertebrates) and to one or two striking species of plants. 

 Doggett was the first naturalist to observe the Balceniceps 

 on Lake Victoria and to send home specimens from that 

 new locality (see ' Ibis/ 1901, p. 157).— H. H. J. 



