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obtained Smew, and of a hybrid between a Mallard 
and a Pintail are known to have been in this collec- 
tion. He was a friend and correspondent of Sir 
William Jardine, to whom he sent a collection of birds 
from Madeira. J.P. and D.L., Dumfriesshire. He 
died October 26th, 1848. 
Clark Kennedy, Captain Alexander William Maxwell, 
eldest son of Colonel John Clark Kennedy, C.B., 
of Knockgray, Kirkcudbrightshire, b. September 
26th, 1852. Educated at Eton. At the age of 
sixteen published The Birds of Berkshire and 
Buckinghamshire. On leaving Eton he obtained a 
commission in the Coldstream Guards. Lieutenant 
1872. Captain 1874. His love of travel and his 
enthusiasm for sport induced him to retire from the 
army on being gazetted Captain. From that date 
he gave himself up to a country life, residing for the 
most part at Knockgray. He published in 1878 
To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks ; in 1884 
Robert the Bruce, a poem historical and romantic. 
He was a frequent contributor to the Zoologist, Field, 
Baily's Magazine, and Land and Water. A friend 
and correspondent of Mr. J. E. Harting. His home 
at Knockgray was but a few miles beyond the confines 
of Dumfriesshire, and many of his ornithological 
observations were made in Nithsdale, 1874-1876. 
Captain Clark Kennedy was an F.Z.S., F.L.S., 
F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U., etc. " A good sportsman and 
an accomplished naturalist." He died on December 
21st, 1894. 
Gibson, William George, b. at Dumfries, December, 1828. 
Son of Dr. John Erskine Gibson, who was surgeon to 
at least one of William Scoresby's Arctic Expeditions, 
and died January, 1833, at Milnhead (Kirkmahoe). 
William George Gibson was a collector of antiquities, 
and at one time secretary to Dr. J. Gilchrist, of the 
Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries. Appointed first 
treasurer of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural 
History and Antiquarian Society at the Society's 
