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Cashmere was handed over to the British ; and a few days afterwards 

 the second Treaty, by which the Kashmir portion was transferred to 

 the Maharajah Golab Singh, was executed. Shortly after this, Lord 

 Arthur Hay, with other officers, among whom were Lord Elphinstone, 

 Lord James Brown, Captain H. Bates, and Lieutenant A. Hardinge, 

 obtained leave to visit this part of the Himalayas : and, after being 

 received with marked courtesy by the Maharajah at his ancestral resi- 

 dence of Jummoo, they crossed by the Banihal Pass into the valley of 

 Kashmir. After spending a month there, Lord Arthur Hay and Lord 

 Hardinge started for Dallas tan, or Little Tibet, via the Kishengunga 

 Valley and the Dessai Plains, and, after visiting Skardo, travelled on 

 to Leh. in Laclakh, and thence through Bupshu to cross the high 

 pass, the Parang La (19,000 feet), finally ending their tour at Simla. 

 The party met with a good deal of trouble and vexatious delay in 

 this latter part of the journey, which at that period was of a venture- 

 some, if not of a dangerous nature. Lord Arthur Hay was, through- 

 out this journey, engaged in his favourite study, and made a large 

 collection of the birds of the country. 



During his stay in India. L 3rd Arthur Hay. although much inte- 

 rested in natural history, and on terms of intimacy with Dr. Jerdon, 

 Mr. Blyth, Sir Walter Elliot, and other Indian naturalists, gave very 

 little of the results of his studies to the public. We can only find 

 published during this period the two articles in the "Madras Journal," 4 

 which stand at the head of the subjoined list. 



During the next period of his life, Lord Arthur Hay, who assumed 

 the title of Viscount Walden in 1862, on the death of his elder brother, 

 Lord GiiFord, was too much engaged with his military duties and other 

 matters to be able to do much scientific work. In 1854 he accom- 

 panied the army sent out to Turkey, and thence to the Crimea, and 

 took part in the campaign which resulted in the fall of Sebastopol. 

 In 1866 Lord Walden finally retired from active service, and com- 

 menced anew a collection of birds and ornithological books in a house 

 which he built for himself at Chislehurst, and which was for the ten 

 following years his habitual residence. He became a frequent contri- 

 butor to il The Ibis," to the Zoological Society's " Proceedings " and 

 "Transactions," the "Annals of Xatural History," paying special 

 attention to the birds of India and the Eastern Archipelago. In 

 1868, Lord Walden, upon the death of Sir George Clerk, was elected 

 President of the Zoological Society of London, of the Council of 

 which he was already a member, and retained this office, discharging 

 the duties with the greatest zeal and success, until Iris death. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Boyal Society in 1871. 



On the death of his father, at a very advanced age, in 1876. Lord 

 Walden succeeded to the peerage and estates, and transferred his 

 home and collections to the ancestral seat of Tester, in East Lothian, 



