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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
the School Board and Chairman of the Board of Guardians, as 
well as interesting himself in the management of many of the 
City Charities. He was at no time an active member of our 
Society, nor did he make any branch of natural science his par- 
ticularly study, but he much enjoyed country walks, especially 
among the mountains; and being a keen photographer he delighted 
to bring home records thus obtained of places he had visited and 
scenes that had pleased. 
In August died Mr. John Young, F.Z.S., who was the second 
son of the late Rev. E. N. Young of Quainton, and was for many 
years in the War Office. An ardent ornithologist, he made the 
habits and migrations of birds his special study ; in pursuit of this 
he took excursions, during his annual leave, to Holland, Hungary, 
and the mouth of the Danube. It was he who first discovered the 
eggs of the Snow Bunting in Great Britain. In years past we 
have been indebted to Mr. Young for several contributions to our 
‘ Transactions,’ one of especial interest being “ Observations on the 
habits of the Bearded Tit in confinement.” 
Mr. Edward Lewis Birkbeck, who died in October at the early 
age of 41, entered the bank of Gurney & Co., in which he became 
a partner in 1879. He was very popular, both as a man of 
business and a keen sportsman, and though he had not devoted 
much time to the study of Natural History, he was a close observer 
of Nature, and the note-books of our ornithologists were enriched 
by records of what he had seen when watching rare visitants to 
our county. 
We were glad to have numbered amongst our members the 
Rev. Hugh Alexander Macpherson, although he had ceased to 
be a member shortly before his death. His latest book, ‘ The 
History of Fowling,’ was published in 1897, but the ‘Fauna of 
Lakeland,’ his most important work, preceded it several years, at 
which time he wrns resident in Carlisle. It has been truly said 
of him that he was “equally eminent both in field and cabinet 
work, while as a scholar he wielded a pen of high literary 
excellence.” Mr. Macpherson contributed to our ‘ Transactions,’ 
Avith other papers, two of great value on “ The habits and plumage 
of the Manx Shearwater.’’ 
