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party to discover and relieve Sir John Franklin, 
1848-1849. Returning, he retired from pubhc 
service. Created C.B. 1850; LL^D. (Dublin) 
1857 He resided at Lancngg, Westmorland, 
(the property of his wife), where he died on June 5th, 
1865 The species Stercorarim erepidatus has been 
named after this eminent explorer and naturalist. 
His pubhcations, chiefly on ichthyology and polar 
exploration, include Fauna Boreah-Ameruuna, 1829- 
1837 • Icones Piscium, or Plates of Bare Fishes, 1843 , 
JourLl of a Boat Voyage Thro^h Buperts Land 
and the Arctic Sea, 1851 ; and The PoUr Regions, 
1861. He also contributed largely to the Zoologies 
of HMS "Blossom," 1839; "Sulphur, 1844; 
"Samarang," 1848; and "Herald," 1854. 
RiMMER, RiCHAKD, of Dalawoodie (H°lyj°f )' ^ , Jf^^' 
1826 Educated at Liverpool and at Exeter College, 
Oxford J.P. for the counties of Dumfries and 
Suffolk A keen all-round naturalist and a high 
authority on conchology and malacology. One ot 
the first scientists to employ photography m connec- 
tion with natural history study. Elected a Fellow 
of the Linn^an Society, May l^t, 1879. Published 
in 1880 The Land and Freshwater Shells of the British 
Isles, the work being illustrated by photographs 
taken by the Albertype process under his personal 
supervision In 1887 he went from Westbourne 
SInt Hyde Park, to St. Albans, and after two 
years in that town removed to Dumfries. He was 
elected a member of the Dumfriesshire and Mloj^/ 
Natural History and Antiquarian Society, September 
8th ; and President, October 5th, 1888. From time 
to time he contributed interestmg ornithological 
notes to the Transactions of that Society. He was 
one of the original members of the Dumfries and 
Maxwelltown Observatory Museum Committee, and 
succeeded the late Patrick Dudgeon of Cargen 
as President in April, 1895, which office be lield tdl 
his death on August 19th, 1905 Richard Rimmer s 
large collection of mounted birds, most of which had 
