18 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Hugh Alexander Macpherson, M.A. 



Earely, indeed, have the interests served by this Journal 

 sustained a greater loss than in the premature removal from our 

 midst of the Rev. Hugh Alexander Macpherson. A sudden 

 attack of inflammation, resulting from exposure to inclement 

 weather, on a constitution never quite robust, came on the 23rd, 

 and on the 26th November a bright existence passed away. 



A member of an ancient branch of the Clan, that has given 

 many members to high public service, he first saw the light in 

 Calcutta, forty-three years ago, the eldest son of Mr. William 

 Macpherson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, editor of the 

 ' Quarterly Review.' His grandfather was Dr. Macpherson, 

 Professor of Greek in King's College, Aberdeen. Educated at 

 Haileybury and Oriel College, Oxford, he received the degree of 

 B. A. in 1881, and M.A. (with honours) in 1884. He was 

 ordained to the ministry in 1882, and served as curate of St. 

 James's, Carlisle, till 1885, when he went to London, and held 

 curacies in Upper Holloway and Paddington. He came back to 

 Carlisle three years later, and remained there in various ecclesi- 

 astical offices till 1897, when he accepted the incumbency of 

 Allonby, close by the ever-troubled waters of the Solway Firth. 

 About a couple of years ago he removed to another charge at 

 Pitlochry, in the Central Highlands, where a busy life has closed 

 all too soon. Although a Highlandman, his heart was where his 

 life's work had been done, and by his own wishes his body was 

 laid to rest in the cemetery of the old Border City he loved so 

 well by a great company of mourners, and amidst numerous 

 manifestations of public grief. 



As a naturalist, Macpherson possessed a rare — almost a 

 unique — combination of qualifications ; he was equally eminent 

 in both field and cabinet work, while as a scholar he wielded a 

 pen of high literary excellence. Indefatigable in his outdoor 



