308 Obituary. 



Another of his colleagues, Dr. A. E. Shipley, has recently 

 expressed his high appreciation of Wilson in ' The Times ' of 

 the 11th of February, 1913 :— 



" May one who for several years Morked with the late 

 Dr. E. A. Wilson offer a small tribute to one of the finest 

 men who ever lived ? Although I had known him as a 

 pupil in Cambridge about the middle of the nineties, it was 

 not until the departmental inquiry into the diseases of 

 grouse was established in 1905, under the chairmanship of 

 Lord Lovat, that 1 really came to know him intimately. 

 From the beginning of our working together I appreciated 

 the fact that my colleague was a man of the very highest 

 character. He was indefatigable in his work, absolutely 

 unselfish, never thinking of his own reputation, but very keen 

 to advance knowledge and achieve results, singularly modest, 

 with a quiet sense of fun and humour : so that he was 

 altogether an ideal man to work with. 



" Dr. Wilson was a quite remarkable field naturalist. 

 Little that went on in the open escaped his notice. He 

 could not only see things which the ordinary eye passes by, 

 but he could perpetuate them on paper. 



'' Wilson was a man of indomitable courage, one who never 

 spared himself — characters that were appreciated to the full 

 by Captain Scott. He was very simple in all his habits and 

 very direct in his thought and address, loyal to his friends, 

 staunch to any cause he took up. He had, in fact, the 

 characters of the finest type of an English gentleman.^^ 



Wilson was elected a member of the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union in 1900, and shortly afterwards joined the 

 Club where, though not a very regular attendant at the 

 meetings, he was one of its most popular members. In 

 1900 he married Oriana, daughter of the Rev. F. O. Souper, 

 of Comberton Rectory, Cambridge. 



While the Grouse Disease inquiry was proceeding, Wilson 

 tound time to prepare the illustrations for the new edition 

 of Bell's '.British Quadrupeds,' which is at present appearing, 

 and spent much of his time at the Natural History Museum, 



