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he married a dear and intimate friend of his deceased 

 wife, Clementina, daughter of the late Mr. Baillie- 

 Hamilton, whose intense devotion to her husband for 

 the rest of his life can be only reverently recorded and 

 not recounted. 



In his own county was organized a Natural History 

 Society, of which he was not only the President, but the 

 mainstay, and to its 'Journal' he began, in 1880, to 

 contribute a series of papers on the Birds of North- 

 amptonshire, which were finally republished, with many 

 additions, in two volumes under that title only a short 

 time before his death. The generosity with which he 

 supported almost every scheme that made for the pro- 

 gress of Zoology might have been called lavish had it 

 not been tempered by discretion. Enough to say that 

 on a good case being made out his pecuniary help was 

 always forthcoming, and never stinted in amount. But 

 often he did not wait for a case to be brought to his 

 notice, and of himself would find opportunity and the 

 man for it. A notable instance of this subsequently 

 happened in regard to the zoology of Cyprus, which he 

 commissioned Dr. Henry Guillemard to investigate, with 

 results well known to readers of ' The Ibis.' 



As before said, Lord Lilford's interest in all that 

 concerned Spain never relaxed, and next to Ins own 

 country his sympathies lay with that whose language he 

 loved to study and speak. He hailed with pleasure the 

 appearance in 1887 of the ' Aves de Espana' by Don 

 Jose Arevalo, published in the Memoirs of the Royal 



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