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(late of his death, and in the management of which his 

 brother and two sons were associated with him. 



Pearson's tastes were in the direction of Arctic orni- 

 thology and travel, and he possessed one of the finest 

 collections of Arctic birds and eggs in this country. He 

 became a Member of the B. O. U. in 1891, but his first 

 excursion of any importance was to the north of Norway 

 in 1893, when he was accompanied by Mr, Edward Bidwell. 

 The results of this journey were published in 'The Ibis' 

 for 1894. He visited Iceland with his brother Charles in 

 1894), and published a useful paper on the subject in 

 ' The Ibis' of the following year. In 1895 he enlarged the 

 scope of his explorations; chartering a small steamer the 

 ' Saxon/ he visited Russian Lapland, the little-known 

 island of Kolguev, and Novaya Zemlya. As companions he 

 had with him his brother Charles, the Hev. H. H. Slater, 

 and Col. H. W. Feilden. The ornithological results obtained 

 were duly published in ' The Ibis ' for 1896. For 1897 he 

 evolved a more ambitious programme, hiring the Norwegian 

 ship 'Laura/ an old sailing-vessel with auxiliary steam- 

 power, and again accompanied by the veteran Arctic navi- 

 gator Capt. Kjeldseu as sailing-master, with Colonel Feilden 

 and Mr. Curtis as companions, he visited Habarova^ the 

 almost unknown island of Dulgoi, Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, 

 Lukke Land, and passing through the Matotschin Scharr 

 entered the Kara Sea ; here favoured by abnormally fine 

 weather he examined the east coast of Lukke Laud as far 

 north as the PachtussofF Islands — a remarkable feat. The 

 observations on the bird-life made during this voyage, 

 together with a complete list of the birds observed and 

 recorded, are embodied in a joint paper by Pearson and 

 Feilden published in 'The Ibis.' 



Mr. Pearson subsequently gave the results of these two 

 expeditions in a more extended book-form under the title 

 'Beyond Petsora Eastwards,' a beautifully illustrated volume 

 with valuable appendices on the Botany and Geology of the 

 regions visited. 



Another series of ornithological observations were carried 



