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the son entered on leaving school, and continued to devote 
himself to for the rest of his life. Yet even the ties of business 
did not serve to repress the ardour of his pursuit of his 
favourite subject, ornithology, and indeed for thirty or more 
years no Scottish ornithologist was better known than 
Service of Max well town. He numbered Newton, Saunders, 
Macpherson, Harvie-Brown, and other well-known writers 
among his correspondents. Mr. H. S. Gladstone states that 
among those who assisted him in the preparation of his 
Birds of Dumfriesshire (1910) Robert Service “ stands pre- 
eminent.” He was Secretary of the Dumfriesshire and 
Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society from 
1876 (when he commenced to reorganise it) until 1882 (when 
he left it with a membership of 137). He was also a member 
of the B.O.XJ. (1900-10), of the British Association, Natural 
History Society of Glasgow, and several other societies. He 
was a constant contributor of ornithological and other papers 
to various local newspapers, as well as to the natural history 
journals, and Mr. Gladstone states that his papers and notes 
total upwards of 200. 
Robert Service died at his residence, Janefield, Maxwell- 
town, on May 8, 1911, being survived by his wife, two sons, 
and three daughters. 
For a fuller Memoir by Mr. Gladstone see British Birds 
for July 1911 (v. pp. 34-41). 
1882. Notes on Local Ornithology. (Trans. Dumfr. N.H. Soc. ix. pp. 24-9.) 
1884. The Birds of Kirkcudbrightshire. [In Maxwell’s Guide Booh to 
the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright , 4th edit.] 8vo. Castle Douglas : 
1884. 
1885. Disappearance of the Chough from the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 
(Trans. N.H. Soc. Glasg. N.S. i., 1883-86, pp. 117-22.) 
1887. On the former existence of Ptarmigan in S.W. Scotland. ( Zoologist , 
pp. 81-9.) 
On the nesting of the Tufted Duck in Kirkcudbrightshire. (T.c. 
pp. 342-4.) 
1894. Occurrence of the Whiskered Tern in Solway. (Ann. Scott. N.H. 
pp. 179-81.) 
1895. The Starling in Solway. (Op. cit. pp. 92-6.) 
