ORNITHOLOGISTS 
Ireland, 1876; etc. Editions of Gilbert White's 
Natural History of Selhorne in 1829, 1850, 1853, and 
1880, contain notes by him, as also Alexander Wilson's 
American Ornithology, 1832. He was a frequent 
contributor to the scientific magazines of his day. 
In 1837 he acted with P. J. Selby and Dr. Johnston 
as co-editor of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany 
which in 1838 became Annals of Natural History, 
and in 1841 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 
He was also for some years a joint-editor of the 
Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Sir William 
Jardine was elected a Member of the Wernerian 
Society on December 2nd, 1820; Member of Council, 
1823; and Vice-President, 1826. Member of the 
Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 1832 ; President, 
1836. He took a keen interest in the Dumfriesshire 
and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society, of which he was President on its inauguration 
on November 20th, 1862. He was also LL.D., F.R.S., 
F.R.S.E. He died at Sandown, Isle of Wight' 
on November 21st, 1874, his remains being interred 
at Applegarth Parish Kirk on November 27th. I 
have been fortunate in having had access to many 
MSS., notes, letters, etc., by him, and numerous 
sketches therein testify to his abilities as a 
draughtsman. The sale of his collection of birds 
by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson on June 17th, 1886, 
only realised £216, but ten years previously his main 
collection of British birds had been sold to the Edin- 
burgh Museum for £200. Some of these specimens can 
still be seen in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edin- 
burgh, in wonderfully good preservation. The 
illustrations in this volume of the Blue-winged Teal 
and Night-Heron, thanks to the courtesy of the 
officials of the above-mentioned Museum, are taken 
from the actual birds formerly in Sir William's 
collection. 
Laidlaw, William, b. November 19th, 1780. "The 
friend, factor and amanuensis of Sir Walter Scott." 
He " was a Borderman, but after the death of Sir 
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