78 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



" piece" together. Photographs of the remains are to be exhibited at 

 the County Hall, and the Asylums Committee suggest that they 

 should be preserved in the Horniman Museum. — ('The Observer,' 

 Feb. 2nd, 1913.) 



O B I T U A E Y. 



The Earl of Crawford, K.T., F.R.S. 



The world of science sustained a great loss in the death of Lord 

 Crawford on January 31st, at the age of sixty-six. Himself an active 

 man of science, his lordship was in sympathy with all its branches, 

 and the nation, as a whole, is indebted to him for much that is both 

 valuable and interesting. 



It is, however, the loss of a patron of the science of zoology that 

 we particularly deplore in these pages. Some fifteen years ago Lord 

 Crawford was compelled through ill-health to pass the winter months 

 abroad in order to avoid the changes of our English climate, and it 

 was during these years that his now celebrated yachting cruises to 

 the South Seas and Eastern Tropics took place. The extent of these 

 cruises may be better understood when it is pointed out that such 

 remote localities as the islands of South Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, 

 and Borneo were visited, and the stormy seas off Cape Horn 

 negotiated. 



Lord Crawford realised what great opportunities would present 

 themselves for enriching the collections at South Kensington, and for 

 this reason a naturalist was almost invariably numbered amongst the 

 party on board, 



Three of these voyages are described in an interesting manner by 

 Mr. M. J. Nichol in ' Three Voyages of a Naturalist,' published some 

 live years ago after a cruise round Africa. It is only to be expected 

 that many new forms of birds, beasts, and insects would be collected 

 during these trips, and the types of these, together with the whole 

 collections made, are deposited in the National Museum. Rarely 

 visited and remote islands always have a strange fascination for the 

 traveller-naturalist, and it was such places as this that Lord Crawford 

 made a point of visiting in his splendid full-rigged ship, the yacht 

 'Valhalla,' whose decks bore a striking resemblance to a menagerie 

 towards the close of a long winter cruise. 



As one who had the good fortune to make a long cruise to the 

 Tropics on board her, the writer can testify to Lord Crawford's general 

 sympathy towards Natural History and interest in strange animals 

 and birds, whether alive or dead. His interests, however, were many- 

 sided ; a distinguished astronomer, he visited Cadiz in 1870 to witness 

 the eclipse of the sun, and Mauritius in 1874, on the occasion of the 

 Transit of Venus. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 



1878, and President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878 and 



1879. He was also an ex-President of the Royal Photographic Society, 

 and a Trustee of the British Museum. 



G. Meade-Waldo. 



