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tory. In Jan. 1871, he commenced to edit the natural history columns of The Field, which he has con- tinued to do ever since; and in Jan. 1877, he was appointed editor of The Zoologist, in which capacity he still acts. Elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1864, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1868, he has served on the council of the latter and on various com- mittees of the former society and of the British Association for many years. He took an active part in procuring the passing of the Sea Birds Preservation Act, 1869, and drafted the Bill for the Protection of Wild Fowl, which was passed in 1872 ; and in 1873 he was examined before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to take evidence on this subject with a view to further legislation. Elected an honorary member of several county Natural History Societies, he was in 1882 awarded a first- class silver medal of the Soci^te d'AccHmatation de France "for scientific publications." The titles of his works are : — " The Birds of Middlesex : a Contribution towards the Natural History of the Coun- ty," 1866; "The Ornithology of Sliakespeare critically examined, explained, and illustrated," 1871 ; "A Handbook of British Birds," 1872 ; " Our Summer Migrants," 1875 ; a new edition of " White's Natural History of Selborne," 1875 ; another edition, with ad- ditional " Letters of White ; " "Rambles in Search of Shells," 1876 ; " Ostriches and Ostrich Farming," 1877; "Rodd's Birds of Cornwall," edited with an In- troduction, Appendix, and Memoir of the Author, 1880 ; " British Animals extinct within Historic Times," 1880 ; " Glimpses of Bird Life," 1880 ; and " Essays on Sport and Natural History," 1882.

HARTINGTON (Marquis op). The Right Hon. Spknceb Comp- TON Cavendish, M.P., eldest sur- viving son of William, 7th Duke

of Devonshire, by Lady Blanche Georgina Howard, 4th daughter of George, 6th Earl of Carlisle, was born July 23, 1833, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gp<aduated B.A. in 185 i, and was made LL.D. in 1862. He was attached to Earl Granville's special mission to Russia in 1856. In March, 1857, he was returned to the House of Commons as one of the members for North Lan- cashire in the Liberal interest. At the opening of the new Parliament in 1859, he moved a vote of no confidence in Lord Derby's Go- vernment, and it was carried by 323 votes against 310. In March, 1863, he was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, and in April in the same year Under-Secretary for War. On the reconstruction of Lord Rus- sell's second Administration, in Feb. 1866, the Marquis of Hartington became Secretary for War, and re- tired with his colleagues in July of that year. At the general election of Dec. 1868, I^rd Hartington lost his seat for North Lancashire, but was immediately afterwards re- turned for the Radnor boroughs, having first received the office of Postmaster-General in Mr. Glad- stone's Cabinet. He held that office till Jan. 1871, when he succeeded Mr. Chichester Fortescue as Chief Secretary for Ireland. His lord- ship went out of office with his party in Feb. 1874. When Mr. Gladstone, shortly before the as- sembling of Parliament in 1875, announced his intention of aban- doning the post of leader of the Liberal party, a meeting of the members of the Opposition was held at the Reform Club (Feb. 3). under the presidency of Mr. John Bright. On the motion of Mr. Villiers, seconded by Mr. Samuel Morley, a resolution was unani- mously passed to the effect that the Marquis of Hartington should be requested to undertake the lea- dership of the Liberal party in the House of Commons. His lordship