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NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
self, but in 1903 he was induced to act as honorary secre- 
tary and curator of the Dumfries and Maxwelltown 
Museum. His work became more than one man could 
overcome, and in 1910 he was stricken with paralysis; his 
recovery was but partial, and he died on 8th May, 1911. 
His knowledge of the local fauna and flora was unsurpassed, 
and though his observations never took a more concrete 
form, upwards of two hundred valuable papers by him on 
these subjects are to be found in the scientific magazines of 
his day. Personally, I may say that without his generous 
assistance my book on The Birds of Dumfriesshire could 
never have been written. 
There must be included here a short notice of :— 
STRICKLAND, Mrs CaTHERINE Dorcas MautLe, second daugh- 
ter of Sir William Jardine, 7th Bart. of Applegarth 
(doy (Ds SSOWE)h 1s AAal \urs, Wee es in, Agiecl |fwhy, mer, 
Hugh Edwin Strickland, the celebrated naturalist. 
Upwards of forty of the one hundred and one illustrations in 
her father’s Contributions to Ornithology, 1848-1852, were 
drawn by her; as well as several illustrations in her hus- 
band’s book, The Dodo and its Kindred, 1848. While pur- 
suing geological studies, Hugh Strickland was knocked 
down and killed by an express train on 14th September, 
1853. After her husband’s death she and Sir Wiiliam 
Jardine edited his Ornithological Synonyms, Vol. I. 
Accipitres, 1855.2 She eventually gave her husband’s 
natural history collection to Cambridge University in 1867. 
She d.s.p. 6th August, 1888. 
LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS. 
In 1910 I gave a list of correspondents (pp. xliii.-xlviii.) 
who had helped me in the compilation of my book; of these 
many are now dead, but to those of my original correspon- 
dents who have assisted me in this present publication I renew 
of 
at 
2 I possess pp. 1-32 of what was presumably intended for Vol. IT. 
this work; these papers deal with the Caprimulgidae, and break off 
No. 94, Chordeiles Sapiti. 
