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where lie subsequently passed the greater part of his time. During 

 the past two years Lord Tweeddale devoted special attention to the 

 investigation of the avifauna of the Philippine Archipelago. Mr. A. 

 H. Everett, a well-known collector, was specially engaged to visit the 

 different islands of this group, and make collections of their birds ; 

 and the results were given to the public in a series of thirteen papers 

 published in the Zoological Society's " Proceedings," the last of which 

 was finished only a few days before the death of the author. 



Another important piece of ornithological work recently under- 

 taken by Lord Tweeddale was the editing, with notes and additions, 

 of the part relating to the birds of " Blyth's Catalogue of the Mammals 

 and Birds of Burma," which was left in a very unfinished state at the 

 author's decease. Under Lord Tweeddale's " able and conscientious 

 treatment," to use the words of Mr. Grrote, the catalogue became a 

 complete list of all the known Burman species, and a most useful 

 work to ornithologists. 



Lord Tweeddale died at his English residence, Walden Cottage, 

 Chislehurst, on the 29th December, 1878, after a very short illness. 

 His collections of birds and scientific books are bequeathed to his 

 nephew, Mr. Robert Wardlaw Ramsay, a well-known member of this 

 Union. 



Johist Wateehouse was born at Halifax, Yorkshire, on the 3rd 

 August, 1806. • 



Very early in life he evinced a decided preference for scientific 

 studies ; his school training increased this preference and enabled him 

 to obtain a sufficient knowledge of mathematical science, which he 

 turned to good account in after years in various branches of physical 

 research. 



A certain weakness of constitution which prevented him in his 

 youth from great bodily exertion, only seemed to stimulate his mental 

 activity ; and when in search of change of climate, with a view to 

 invigorated health, he undertook a voyage round the world, his 

 acquirements enabled him to keep a journal abounding in facts and 

 observations which, had his modesty not shrunk from appearing in 

 print, would have proved the record of a " Scientific Expedition." 

 During the voyage, his love of nature, and the wide range of his 

 scientific tastes acquired an increased stimulus ; and when he returned 

 home his experience in observation, and his knowledge of natural 

 phenomena in different parts of the world, enabled him to enter with 

 renewed pleasure into the less active study of the physico-mathemati- 

 cal sciences. 



He established an astronomical and meteorological observatory, and 

 in 1874 published a quarto volume on the " Meteorology of Halifax," 

 which will continue to be a model for all such local observations. 



