132 Biographical Sketch of Mr II. E. Strickland. 



tatting greatness of England on account of his invention of 

 the rower-loom. 



Mr Strickland's boyhood was spent under his father's roof ; 

 where he was under the private tutelage successively of the 

 three brothers Monkhouse, — one of whom is now a fellow of 

 Queen's College, Oxford. From his father's house he was 

 transferred to the late Dr Arnold, — who, prior to his appoint- 

 ment at Rugby, took private pupils at Laleham, near Staines. 

 He finished his education at Oriel College, Oxford. 



Although distinguished for his classical knowledge, Mr 

 Strickland had early acquired a taste for natural history pur- 

 suits ; and after the completion of his studies at college he 

 resided with his family at Cracourt House, near Evesham, 

 Worcestershire — where he studied minutely the geology of 

 the Cotswolds and the Great Valley of the Severn. Some of 

 his earliest published papers were on geology ; but his first 

 effort as an author indicated a taste for the pursuits of his 

 maternal grandfather. It appeared in the Mechanics' Maga- 

 zine for 1825, — and was on the construction of a new wind- 

 gauge. 



In 1835, Mr Strickland travelled in Asia Minor, in com- 

 pany with Mr W. J. Hamilton, M.P., — who was then Secre- 

 tary to the Geological Society. An account of this journey 

 was published, in two volumes 8vo, by Mr Hamilton, in 1842, 

 under the title " Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Ar- 

 menia." This tour resulted also in the publication of several 

 interesting papers on the geology of the districts visited, both 

 by Mr Strickland himself and conjointly with Mr Hamilton. 

 The principal papers published by Mr Strickland singly were 

 — " On the Geology of the Thracian Bosphorus," — " On the 

 Geology of the Neighbourhood of Smyrna," — and " On the 

 Geology of the Island of Zante." He early devoted his at- 

 tention to the study of birds ; and during this journey he 

 gave proof of his ornithological knowledge by adding to the 

 list of birds inhabiting Europe the Salicaria Olivetorum. He 

 subsequently devoted a large share of his attention to the 

 study of birds ; — as his papers in the " Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History," and in Sir William Jardine's " Contri- 

 butions to Ornithology," amply testify. His principal work, 



