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Works not included in serial Literature.
1883. Zoology of Food Fishes (Ilandb. Internat. Fish Exhib.)- London.
1885. An Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology. With a Preface by
Professor Huxley, P.R.S.
An Atlas of Practical Elementary Zootomy. Reyision of the
preceding yolume. (1902.)
1889. Huxley and Martin's Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary
Biology : Reyised edition, extended and edited by G. B. Howes
and D.'n. Scott.
1893. Wells (H. G.). Textbook of Biolocy ; with an Introduction by
G. B. H. (Another edition in 1899.)
1895. Wiedersheim's Structure of Man, an Index to his Past History ;
translated by II. and M. Bernard : the Translation edited_and
annotated and a Preface wiitten by G. B. Howes.
[Life of William Kitchen Parker], Diet. Nat. Biog. xliii. pp. 290-2.
1904. St. George Mivait : in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal
Society. Part i, pp. 95-100.
Lieut.-Col. Leonard Howard Lotd Irby was born in 1836,
and received his education at Eugby, and at the age of 18 he
joined the 90th Light Infantry, and with it proceeded to the
Crimea, there serving till the fall of Sebastopol. He published
his notes on Crimean birds observed at the theatre of war in the
' Zoologist ' for 1857, but he was in India at the outbreak of the
Mutiny and, with the present Lord Wolseley of the same regiment,
took part in the relief of Lucknow. In 1867 Irby was transferred
to the 74th Highlanders, retiring from the service about eight
years later.
In 1861 he published in the ' Ibis' his "Notes on Birds observed
in Oudli and Kumaon." Birds were his favourite but not exclu-
sive study, and in 1875 he produced his ' Ornithology of the Straits
of Gibraltar,' from materials acquired during his frequent visits
to Spain aTid the opposite coast; a second edition came out
in 1895, containing an account of the Lepidoptera of the
region. His other principal book appeared in 1887 as ' British
Birds : Key-list,' in four years reaching a second edition. He
joined the Zoological Society in 1873, and for many years served
on the Council of that body ; our own Society he joined on
21st June, 1888. He took much interest in the setting up of the
life groups of birds at the British Museum, Cromwell Eoad, in
some measure furnishing the material by his own skill in shooting.
He died on the 14th May, 1905, soon after his return from
Malaga, where he had passed the winter in familiar and delightful
surroundings. [B. D. J .]
Sir Hugh Low was born 10th May, 1824, and died at Alassio on
18th April, in the present year. After an education at private
schools he obtained an appointment in the Hon. East India
Company's service. But on his way to take this up, he became
acquainted with Mr. (afterwards Sir) James Brooke, and the
intimate friendship between them which resulted, diverted the