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OBITUARY. 
in Thompson’s “ Birds of Ireland.” The distinguished author of that work 
gave an expressive intimation of his high opinion of Mr. Garrett’s capa¬ 
bility and judgment, by appointing him one of the literary executors, to 
whom the publication of his extensive MSS. was confided. Mr. Garrett 
did not restrict himself to ornithology; he studied all departments of 
vertebrate zoology, and for the last two or three years of his life had given 
considerable attention to our native fishes—especially to the points of dis¬ 
tinction laid down by ichthyologists, as existing among nearly allied species. 
His residence at Holywood, County Down, extended the sphere of his 
observations, until they embraced portions of the marine invertebrata of its 
shores, and the flora of the neighbourhood. The subject, whatever it 
might be, which engaged his attention at any time, was examined with the 
utmost diligence ; and in critical points, such as come under the notice of 
the naturalist, he delighted to compare the specimens before him with the 
recorded descriptions of the best authorities on the subject, and then to 
form his own opinion. This great assiduity and care, which was with him 
habitual, found exercise in the copious manuscripts which his deceased 
friend, Mr. Thompson, had entrusted to him; and we believe we are 
correct in stating, that the mammalia, reptilia, and fishes were almost 
entirely revised and arranged for publication by Mr. Garrett, in the very 
limited leisure his professional duties allowed. 
He was of remarkably unassuming manners, kindly disposition, and 
simple, yet refined, tastes. It was natural, therefore, that he should have 
acquired a large circle of sincere and zealous friends He was, in point of 
fact— 
“ One who in life, where’er he moved, 
Draw after him the hearts of many.” 
And his death has occasioned in his native town a corresponding degree 
of regret. 
He was elected a corresponding member of the Dublin University Zoolo¬ 
gical Association in February, 1853. He died of fever, the 2nd of April, 
1855, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. 
