NATURE NOTES. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
OST readers of Nature Notes will have learnt with re- 
gret rather than surprise that the serious illness which 
attacked the Rev. Percy Watkins Myles about a year 
ago, and rendered him for the past twelve months 
more or less of an invalid, terminated fatally on Wednesday, 
October 7th. In this Journal, the existence of which was 
largely due to his initiation, and which owed its present position 
mainly to his fostering care, it seems fitting that such memorial 
as can be written of Mr. Myles should find its place. 
Mr. Myles was born at Kilmoe, Co. Cork, on Feb. 27th, 
1849, his father being then curate and afterwards rector of that 
parish. He was educated at Tipperary Grammar School, and 
in 1867 entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated as 
B.A., and distinguished himself in English language and litera- 
ture ; being also Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist of the 
university. In 187Q he took deacon’s orders in the Church of 
England, and was ordained priest in 1873 by the Bishop of 
Lichfield. His first curacy was at St. John's, Wednesbury 
(1871-4); and here he married the wife who has always taken 
a most active interest in his pursuits and shared in his work. 
He then came to London, and was senior curate at Holy 
Trinity, Chelsea, from 1874-8. In 1878 he left Chelsea for 
Hillingdon, having received an address and a purse of fifty 
guineas from his former congregation. Here he stayed for 
about four years, at the end of which time he came to Brentford 
as curate to St. George’s. From this he went to St. Stephen’s, 
Ealing, in 1884, and subsequently became chaplain to the Ken- 
sington Cemetery at Hanwell — a post which lie occupied until 
his death — in which cemetery he was laid to rest on Saturday, 
October 10th. Mr. Myles, who was an able preacher, frequently 
preached in various parts of the country on behalf of the Ad- 
ditional Curates’ Aid Society. 
On taking up his residence at Ealing in 1884, Mr. Myles 
threw himself with great energy into literary and scientific 
work, taking a prominent part in the meetings of the local 
Natural History Society. Here he will be greatly missed at 
the evening meetings, where he often lectured or took the chair, 
and was ever ready to enter into discussions or enlighten the 
meetings with his knowledge and experience. Indeed, he 
always entertained the liveliest interest in the welfare and 
development of the Society. He was also especially active 
in all that concerned the Local Fauna and Flora Sub-com- 
mittee, of which he was a member ; amongst other subjects 
he paid considerable attention to the “ extinction of species.” 
Mr. Myles was also a member of the local committee of the 
Science and Art Classes, and of the committee of the Ealing 
branch of the Cambridge Local Examinations, and he frequently 
