necessarily became shorter and shorter, often only two or three 

 days in length — days devoted for the most part to the 

 verification of an innumerable mass of references to a mountain 

 of books — while he left Mr Hinton to do some of the 

 laborious comparisons of skulls and teeth, for which he had 

 no longer the time. This collaboration has had the fortunate 

 result that Mr Hinton is now available, and has kindly under- 

 taken to finish the remaining parts of the History of British 

 Mammals. 



It may be a convenience to naturalists for the formal 

 outlines of our author's life to be recorded here : — 



Born 1871 ; only surviving son of Captain Samuel Barrett- 

 Hamilton of Kilmanock, Campile, Co. Wexford, Ireland. 

 Educated at Harrow (captain of football, 1890; played 

 for Old Harrovians for several years). I'rinity College, 

 Cambridge (first class Nat. Sci. Tripos, 1894). Called to 

 the Bar, 1896. Member of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Com- 

 mission, 1896-7. Served in the Boer War, 1901-2 ; Captain, 

 190?. Major 5th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, 1905. J. P., Co. 

 Wexford. Married 1903, Maud Charlotte, only daughter of 

 F. S. Eland, Esq., of Ravenshill, Transvaal, by whom he 

 leaves six children. Died in South Georgia, 17th Jan., 19 14. 



As a personality, Barrett- Hamilton was one of the most 

 pleasant companions it has ever been our good fortune to 

 meet. Warm-hearted, full of fun, known to all of us by a 

 nickname, ready to engage in anything from a game of 

 football at the back of the Museum to a discussion on 

 nomenclature or dentition, the happy-minded lovable Irishman 

 was a favourite with the whole staff of the Museum. Deeply 

 will he be missed by all of us, and by none more than the 

 writer of this short notice, who loses in him a dear and 

 intimate friend of twenty years' standing. 



Oldfield Thomas. 



