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determination and -was not easily daunted by the difficulty 

 of the country or the persistent opposition with which we 

 met. During the whole of this expedition I lived with 

 Blanford in one small tent, constantly wet, and we both did 

 harder work than Ave had ever done before or have done 

 since ; and though my education, surroundings, and tastes, 

 apart from our common love of Natural History, had been 

 extremely different from his, yet I can truthfully say that we 

 never had an unpleasant word, and that a better companion 

 in dangers and hardships no man could have. This journey, 

 which was inspired by Sir Joseph Hooker's ' Himalayan 

 Journals/ and this association with a naturalist of the first 

 rank had a great influence upon much of my future work, 

 and though, when Blanford returned to England, married, 

 and settled in London, our respective avocations did not 

 bring us much together, I always considered him and the 

 late Osbert Salvin my best zoological advisers. 



Blanford was all his life a hard worker, and the scientific 

 papers published by him between 1852 and 1901 (of which 

 a list is given in the ' Geological Magazine ' for Jan. 

 1905, with a portrait) number 150, including 22 on ornith- 

 ology. These make a worthy record of his very varied 

 experience, and might form the groundwork of a most 

 interesting biography. 



As Editor of the series of works on the Fauna of British 

 India, published by Government, he was unrivalled, and 

 will be very hard to replace. His official work in these 

 various spheres was somewhat tardily recognised by the 

 Companionship of the Indian Empire, which is often given, 

 at an earlier period in life, to men who have not a tenth 

 part of his distinction. But the Royal Medal of the Royal 

 Society and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society 

 were probably more highly valued by him, and his memory 

 will long remain honoured by all who knew him. 



Yours &c, 



H. J. Elwes, 



