Obituaries. 
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of ornithology, and was the author of many papers as well as books on 
Natural History. Especially important are his series of volumes on the 
Vertebrate Fauna of different regions in the north of Scotland. He 
studied with great care the different problems relating to the migration 
of birds and of the dispersal and distribution of species. In pursuit of 
his favourite science he travelled extensively in various parts of Europe, 
and especially in the islands around the Scottish coasts. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881, 
and died on July 26, 1916. 
Rev. George Laing was born in 1831, and studied at Edinburgh 
University and New College. He began his ministry at Penpont in 1857, 
and subsequently removed to Chapelshade Church, Dundee, where he 
resigned his charge about 1880, and after some years spent in travel on 
the Continent settled in Edinburgh. His publications include sermons 
in German. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1886, 
and died on February 26, 1916. 
Nicholas Henry Martin, Ph.C., F.C.S., was born at Trebarveth, 
Cornwall, on May 2, 1847, and served his apprenticeship with a Penryn 
chemist. Afterwards he proceeded to London, and passed through a 
thorough course of study at the Pharmaceutical School of Pharmacy. 
In 1875 he joined Mr Henry Brady, F.R.S., at Newcastle, and com- 
menced the well-known business of Brady & Martin. He occupied 
various positions of importance, such as President of the British Phar- 
maceutical Conference, Chairman of the Newcastle Section of the Society 
of Chemical Industry, and generally took a leading part in the develop- 
ment of pharmacy. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1903. 
and died at Ravenswood, Gateshead, on July 5, 1916. 
Henry O’Connor, A.M.Inst.C.E. — an engineer well known in Edin- 
burgh circles — was a lecturer at the Heriot-Watt College and the Royal 
Technical Institute in Glasgow. He served a term as President of the 
Institute of Gas Engineers, and contributed many valuable papers to 
the Proceedings of that body as well as to the Society of Arts. He had 
a strong interest in amateur dramatic art, and by his social qualities 
contributed much to the geniality of the meetings of the Pen and Pencil 
Club and of the Cap and Gown Club. He was elected a Fellow of the 
