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many valuable communicatioQs to ' The Ibis/ amongst which 
the introduction to the British List of the Isabelline Wheat- 
ear {Saocicola isabellina) and the Frigate-Petrel {Pelagodroma 
manna) deserve special mention. He also wrote papers for 
the ' Zoologist,' the ^ Annals of Scottish Natural History,' and 
the ' Field,' as well as the scientific portions of the volumes 
on " Grouse," '' Partridge,^' and '^ Pheasant " in Longman's 
' Fur and Feather ' series ; but his most important works 
were the 'Fauna of Lakeland' (Edinburgh, 1892) and a 
unique and exhaustive volume on the ' History of Fowling ' 
published in 1897. Macpherson was a thorough naturalist, 
and his varied sources of information were always freely placed 
at the seryice of his friends, by whom his loss is severely 
felt, and by few more than by the writer of this brief 
notice. — H. S. 
Mr. William Doherty. — The well-known zoological col- 
lector, W^illiam Doherty, whose decease we have already 
mentioned, succumbed to an attack of dysentery in the 
Railway Hospital at Nairobi, British East Africa, on the 25th of 
May last year. Doherty was born in 1857 at Mount Auburn, 
Cincinnati, where his parents are said to be still living. It 
was not until 1882, after lengthened travels through Europe, 
Asia Minor, Persia, and India, that he began to devote his 
energies mainly to Natural History. He soon became known 
as an excellent collector and acute observer, and wrote several 
papers in the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' 
which attracted much notice, but at that time he only worked 
at Insects and Land-shells. Mr. Hartert, who has kindly 
assisted us in preparing these notes, met with Doherty in 
the Malay Peninsula in 1888, and travelled in his company 
through Assam and the Naga Hills. Doherty came to Tring in 
1895, when preparing to start on his last great expedition to 
the eastern tropics, and was there persuaded to add birds to 
his field of operations. The great success to which he attained 
in this branch of Zoology is well known to all who have studied 
the numerous articles on his bird-collections published in the 
' Novitates Zoologicae.' 
