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He was a member of the B.O.U. and Fellow of the Zoo- 
logical Society, and was called to the Bar at the Inner 
Temple in 1896. In the same year he visited the fur-seal 
islands of the North Pacific with Prof. H’Arcy W. Thompson, 
on behalf of the Foreign and Colonial Offices. In October 
1913, accompanied by an assistant from the Natural History 
Museum, he started to South Georgia on a mission from the 
Colonial Office to investigate the whaling, sealing and pen- 
guining carried on there, and also the fauna of the island. 
He however died suddenly, before the return journey, on 
January 17, 1914. 
1891[2]. Harrow Birds. Harrow : 1892. 
Collation — 1 vol. 16mo, pp. xiii + pp. 50. 
Published as a Harrow School Soc. Memoir. 
Note . — The title pages have two dates, 1891 and 1892. 
1895. Notes on Sabine’s Snipe. (Irish Nat. pp. 1-8.) 
1896. Birds of the Harrow District. 1 vol. 8vo. Not seen. 
The Great Auk as an Irish Bird. (Irish Nat. pp. 121-2.) 
1899. The Introduction of the Black Grouse and some other birds into 
Ireland. (Op. cit. pp. 37-43.) 
Barrington (Hon. Daines), 1727-1800 
Haines Barrington, celebrated as a naturalist, antiquary 
and lawyer, was the fourth son of John Shute, first Viscount 
Barrington, and was born in 1727. He is said to have 
studied at Oxford, and choosing the profession of the law was 
called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple, becoming 
eventually second Justice of Chester, a post he held between 
1778 and 1785. He was afterwards Commissary General of 
Stores at Gibraltar, which post he held till his death (Diet. 
Nat. Biog.). He wrote several works on the ancient statutes, 
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, etc., and a volume of Miscellanies 
containing some ornithological matter, but is chiefly re- 
membered by naturalists as one of the correspondents of 
Gilbert White, who addressed to him a series of his famous 
letters. 
In 1767 he prepared — probably for presentation to his 
