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that science, he proceeded on Wednesday afternoon to examine the 
strata of the deep cuttings on each side of the Clarbrough Tunnel, about 
four miles distant from Retford. A little after four o’clock, a boy at 
work in the fields observed him standing between the two lines of rails, 
near the mouth of the tunnel, on the Gainsborough side, with a pocket- 
book in his hand, apparently engaged in making notes. At this time, a 
coal train was approaching on the down line,—to avoid which, he 
stepped off the ‘six feet’ on to the up-line but unhappily he did so 
just at the moment when the Great Northern passenger train was issuing 
from the tunnel. The train dashed upon him,——and the next instant 
he lay a shattered and shapeless corpse.” 
Mr. Strickland was in the prime of life,—-at that age when the prom- 
ise of youth is fast realizing itself. e was born at Righton, in the 
East Riding of Yorkshire, on the 2nd of March, 1811. His father, 
Mr. Ilenry E. Strickland, of Apperley, in Gloucestershire, was a son 
of the late Sir George Strickland, Bart., of Boynton, in Yorkshire. 
e was a grandson on his mother’s side of the celebrated Dr. Edmund 
Cartwright,—whose name is so indissolubly connected with the manu- 
— greatness of England on account of his invention of the power- 
oom 
om. 
Mr. Strickland’s boyhood was spent under his father’s roof; where 
he was under the private tutelage successively of the three brothers 
Monkhouse,—one of whom is now a Fellow of Queen’s College, Ox- 
ford. From his father’s house he was transferred to the late Dr. 
Arnold,——who, prior to his appointment at Rugby, took private pupils 
at Laleham, near Staines. He finished his education at Oriel College, 
Oxford. , 
Although distinguished for his classical knowledge, Mr. Strickland 
had early acquired a taste for natural history pursuits ; and after the 
completion of his studies at college he resided with his family at Cra- 
court House, near Evesham, Worcestershire——where he studied minutely 
on the construction of a new wind-gau 
In 1835, Mr. Strickland travelled in Asia Minor, in company with 
Mr. W. J. Hamilton, M.P..—who was then secretary to the Geological 
Society. An account of this journey was published, in two volumes 
8vo., by Mr. Hamilton, 1842, under the title ** Researches in Asia 
Minor, Pontus and Armenia.” This tour resulted also in the publica- 
tion of several interesting papers on the eology of the districts visited, 
both by Mr. Strickland himself and conjointly with Mr. Hamilton. The 
principal papers published by Mr. Strickland singly were-—“ On the 
Geology of the Thracian Bosphorus.”—-“ On the Geology of the neigh- 
borhood of Smyrna.”—~and “ On the Geology of the Island of Zante.” 
He early devoted his attention to the study of birds; and during this 
journey he gave proof of his ornithological knowledge by adding to the 
list of birds inhabiting Europe the Salicaria Oliveiorum. He subse- 
quently devoted a large share of his attention to the study of birds :— 
as his papers in the “ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,” and 
