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ledge. One or two other sections of the HelicidcB he had likewise 

 taken up for study shortly before his illness. Of these, I should like 

 some day to present his views on the genus Lencochroa, as I had 

 considerable correspondence with him on the subject. He had done 

 much personal collecting of this group in Morocco and elsewhere. 



Every winter he travelled abroad, so as to escape our insular fogs 

 and inclement, treacherous weather, and thus in turn the south of 

 Europe, Algeria, Morocco, Tunis, the Canaries and Madeira, Natal, 

 the Cape, and some of the West Indies, notably Trinidad, were 

 visited. At each place, he made a point of carefully studying the 

 land fauna and thus acquired large suites of fine specimens. This 

 aided in rendering his cabinets replete with rare Helicidcs, and other 

 non-marine families, of which his collection became one of the most 

 complete in existence. He also corresponded ^nd exchanged largely 

 with most conchologists of note, both at home and abroad. 



He was the eldest son of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Spencer Ponsonby- 

 Fane, G.C.B., formerly Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's 

 Department, Royal Household. In his youth he followed his family 

 traditions in becoming a cricketer of some note, playing in the Har- 

 row School XL in 1866. Wicket-keeping was his forte; and he had 

 the advantage of being "coached" by his uncle, the late Hon. 

 Frederick Ponsonby (afterwards sixth Earl of Bessborough), who, 

 every half-holiday during the summer term, would drive down from 

 London to supervise and train the boys in the "king of games." 



For some years he was managing director of Messrs. Herries, 

 Farquhar & Co.'s Bank in St. James' Street, afterwards incorporated 

 with Lloyd's Bank, Ltd., but retired some years before his death. 



He succeeded his father in the Brympton d'Evercy estates, Somer- 

 setshire, as recently as December, 19 16, when he assumed the 

 additional patronymic of Fane. 



In 1876 he married Florence, daughter of Mr. Harvie Morton 

 Farquhar, and she, with a son and daughter (Mrs. E. Clive), survives 

 him. 



Among the writings of Mr. Ponsonby-Fane may be mentioned the 

 following : — 



(A). 



1. List of Shells found in the Neighbourhood of Yeovil, Somerset. 

 Journ. of Conch., iv., p. 245, 1885. 



2. Additions to the Land Shells of Gibraltar, ib., p. 266. 



3. Remarks on the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the Maltese 

 Islands, ib., p. 280. 



4. On the Land Shells of Gibraltar, ib., v., p. 194, 1886, 



