374 OBITUARY NOTICE.— MAJOE BROWNE 



a distinguished family of stock breeders, he brought the 

 Darwinian principles of selection and evolution into active 

 and successful play, and blended, in his herd, drafts from 

 the most approved breeders in Great Britain and America. 

 It must remain a matter for regret to Shorthorn breeders, 

 that an end to these ably conducted scientific tests became 

 inevitable by the increase of the stock, so that their dispersion 

 was the result. The taste for well-bred stock, and the 

 improvement of a race, is, as a rule, life-long ; and at the 

 time of Major Browne's death, the grass parks at Callaly 

 Castle were covered with pure bred Shorthorn cattle ; many 

 fine specimens having been removed, after the death of his 

 father, from Doxford. He married a daughter of a much 

 esteemed member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 (who died while fulfilling the duties of President.) Major 

 Browne also invested freely in landed estates in North 

 Northumberland, and settled at Callaly Castle — for many 

 generations the seat of the Claverings, a Northumbrian 

 family, from the time of the Norman Kings. By unstinted 

 outlay the farms were improved, new steadings of the 

 best type erected, and the castle restored and enlarged. 

 While so occupied, an additional accession of wealth came 

 to him, by the death of his maternal aunt, Mrs W. H. 

 Forman of Pippbrook House, Surrey ; and with it the costly, 

 and in many respects unique, museum of antiquities and art 

 treasures, collected by her late husband. This collection 

 contains many specimens, their origin dating far into the 

 obscure regions of history. The Etruscan Vases and Ceramic 

 Art generally originate from near 700 years B.C. These 

 Yases were discovered in excavations at Athens, and other 

 parts of Greece, mostly in the islands on the Mediterranean 

 coast, which were occupied by Greek colonies, in, or previous 

 to, the 6th century b.c. Many were also found in Italy, 

 which accounts for the name Etruscan being, in error, applied 

 to these Vases. "Greek Vases have been mostly found 

 in tombs and sepulchres, and were of funereal import, for 

 which they were made.""^ It is interesting to trace the 



* Catalogue of the Museum, 



