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on in South Georgia. I hope you will be kind to me about my 

 'Mammals' while I am away." 



After a passage of thirty-five days, he reached South Georgia, 

 accompanied by an assistant from the Natural History Museum. 

 On December 2nd he wrote again, "for post as opportunity offers," 

 another long letter about Whales, enclosing elaborate analyses com- 

 piled from the above-mentioned Eeports in the ' Zoologist' (1884-90). 

 He adds : — " I haven't seen a great many Whales yet, only a few (of 

 each) Finners, Humpbacks, Blue and Sperm ; but the notes which I 

 have been able to make support or amplify yours. ... I arrived 

 here on November 10th. I find the place most interesting — Sea 

 Elephants, Sea Leopards, Weddell's Seal, four or five kinds of Pen- 

 guins, Albatrosses, and numerous Procellariidce, all to be studied, 

 besides the Whales, but at present I am chiefly engaged with the 

 latter. I haven't time to write a full account, as when there are 

 Whales on the platform I am there from 6 a.m. Some days the 

 weather is charming, and of course we have the summer sun, but it 

 blows and snows frequently, and there is little vegetation yet." 



This letter was received on January 14th, and on the 17th 

 occurred his apparently almost sudden death from heart failure. 



The melancholy news was conveyed from South Georgia to the 

 Falkland Islands by a whaler, a run which occupied a week. Another 

 week was occupied by a cablegram thence to South Kensington ; and 

 from there the sad fact, lacking of course all details, was communi- 

 cated to Mrs. Barrett-Hamilton, who has since heard that his body 

 is being brought home by the whaler ' Orwell,' due at Liverpool about 

 February 27th, so before this appears in print he will no doubt have 

 been laid to rest near his Wexford home. 



One would wish to write much more about him, who always 

 believed the best of everyone, but already the limit of space is con- 

 siderably exceeded. 



Alfred Heneage Cocks. 



