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present year_, spent most of his life in India^ in the Indian 
Civil Service. At the time of the Indian Mutiny he was 
one of the twelve gallant civilians who so successfully de¬ 
fended the Billiard Boom at Arra against the mutineers. In 
1869 he came home on furlough; and before returning to 
India in October 1871^ he became a Fellow of the Zoological 
Society of London and a Member of the British Ornitho¬ 
logists^ Union. On his return to India he became District- 
Judge at Futtehgurhj which post in the service he held until 
his death. At Futtehgurh he found ample field for his orni¬ 
thological pursuits ; and that he made good use of his oppor¬ 
tunities is evinced by his able and careful papers contributed 
to The Ibis ^ and to the Zoological Society between 1871 
and 1878. 
All his letters to his various naturalist friends in this country 
showed the enthusiasm with which he entered into this con¬ 
genial work^ and the extreme care he always bestowed upon 
minute details in his observations—an important qualification 
in an accurate field naturalist. 
In June 1877 he came again to England_, but this time in 
bad health; and for many weeks he was an invalid and confined 
to his room. He temporarily recovered, and was able occa¬ 
sionally to visit his friends, and during the short time that 
elapsed before his death took as keen an interest as ever in 
his natural-history pursuits. 
We greatly regret to report the death of another of our 
Members, Mr. Henry Durnford, which took place at Salta, 
in Bolivia, on the 11th of July last. After returning from 
Patagonia, as mentioned in the first article in this number, 
Mr. Durnford had started on an expedition to the northward 
when the melancholy event which we record took place. As 
no particulars have yet reached this country, we defer a more 
lengthened notice of this ardent ornithologist till our next 
issue. 
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Another energetic traveller, Mr. E. C. Buxton, has also 
passed away. Mr. Buxton^s name will be best known to the 
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