xii. Biographical Notice of the late Edward Halkyard. 



"For many years for reasons of health he found it inadvis- 

 able if not impossible to winter in the north of England, and so 

 it became his custom to spend this part of the year further south 

 — sometimes in the south of England or Channel Islands, and 

 at others in the south of Europe, and it was his habit to make 

 use of his opportunities then and there to collect specimens and 

 take dredgings which, upon his return home, he submitted to 

 diligent and careful microscopical examination with the results 

 of which you are acquainted. 



"This habit of life continued for a number of years, and 

 until his physical powers, and more particularly his eye-sight, 

 gradually began to fail, and rendered further work impossible. 



"When he gave it up he presented his specimens to the 

 Victoria University, Manchester, where they are now placed in 

 the Museum. 



"He was a quiet, unassuming, generous-hearted English 

 gentleman of the highest principles, to which he was always 

 true, and with a keen sense of his duty to his fellow men. From a 

 sense of this duty he never married, and he passed quietly, even 

 as he had lived, to his rest at Alderley Edge on the 19th June, 

 1917." 



To this we may add from our personal knowledge of the 

 man, that he was a fine example of that patient and unosten- 

 tatious body of amateur scientists, who, devoting their lives 

 to the study of highly specialised branches of research, have 

 contributed so greatly to the scientific knowledge of the world. 

 Such men were — in his own branch of science — Dr- H. B. 

 Brady, the Reverend A. M. Norman, and Fortescue W. Millett, 

 to name but these, men who, undisturbed by the exigencies of 

 Professorial life, have been able to devote themselves to 

 the fascinating drudgery of Systematic Zoology, and upon 

 whose labours the professional scientist is compelled to rely, 

 whilst absorbed in the wider problems of Biological Research. 



H-A. & E. 



