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being also factor, for shorter periods, on Auchenskeoch 
Estate, Kirkcudbright, and Carradale in Kintyre. He ren- 
dered much public service in local affairs and was always 
an ardent student of natural history. He was elected a 
member of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History 
and Antiquarian Society in 1879 and his knowledge of 
ornithology is evidenced by his papers, published in our 
Transactions, on ‘‘ The Destruction of Beasts and Birds of 
Prey ’’ (7th March, 1884) and ‘ Natural History Notes ”’ 
14th January, 1892). He died on 7th October, 1919. 
Sir James Stuart MENTEITH was born toth August, 1792. 
His father died 3rd December, 1847, aged seventy-nine. 
(p. xxxvi.) 
Sir JoHn RicHARDSON, the intrepid Arctic explorer, is buried 
at Grasmere, Westmoreland. His father, Gabriel Richard- 
son, who was an intimate friend of the poet Burns, died 26th 
January, 1820. (p. xxxvii.) 
We have to add here the name of the late Robert Service, 
than whom no one has done more to elucidate the Fauna of 
the Solway Area :— 
SERVICE, ROBERT, b. 23rd May, 1854, at Netherplace, near 
Mauchline, Ayrshire, came to Maxwelltown at an early age. 
Educated at the old Free Kirk School, he in due course 
entered his father’s business asa nurseryman. A keen field- 
* observer, all his spare time was spent in the study of the 
fauna and flora of the Solway Area. In 1876 he was the 
principal of those who reorganised the Dumfriesshire and 
Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, and 
was elected Secretary. In 1882 he was offered the appoint- 
- ment of naturalist to an expedition undertaking the explora- 
tion of Eastern Africa, which, however, he declined for 
private reasons. In 1892 and 1895 he gave valuable evi- 
dence to the Royal Commissions appointed respectively to 
investigate the vole plague in Scotland, and the salmon 
fisheries of the Solway. On the death of his father in 1901 
the conduct of his business devolved almost entirely on him- 
