CONTENTS CEiA l. I. PARENTAGE AND EARLY LIFE . 11. EARLY CI. ERICA1. I, IFE 111. NUNBURNHOLXIE . IV. HISTORY OF BRITISH HIRDS. V. BRITISH RUTTERFMES AN11 MOTHS VI. PERSONAI, . VII. THE PROTECTION OF EIKDS. VIII. LATER WORKS AND FRIEKUSHIPS 1873 IX. CORKESPONDENCE X. DARIVINISM AND VIVISECTION XI. VIEWS ON QUESTIONS OF THE DAY XII. SPORT AND SLAUGHTER . XIII. STRAY NATURE-NOTES . x v . DECLINING YEARS I 871-1893 . XV. LnST DAYS . APPEXDIX I. EXTRACT FROM SERErlOS . 309 APPENDIX IJ. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS . 311 x i FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS PARENTAGE AND EAKI, Y LIFE FRANC O IS I I I N OI IHI t S he , elctest son of 12dmiral Hcilry Gagc hlorris, mxs born 011 25th 3Inrch 1810, at Cove, near Cork, at t time wllen his klthcr vas serving his country in con m ind of one of his Alajestys sflips un the Irish station. Half L cen tury or more before this llis grxldfnthe1-, Captain Roger Xforris, was ellgaged 011 active duty i11 the other branch of the service it Amcrica, tnil tool p t-t in some of the most stiri-i lg e vents pi-ecedirlg the IVar of Independence. He was aide-de-c inlp to General Braddock duri lg the luckless c lmp, lign against the French ancl lndiails at Fort du Quesne in 1755, and was sererely wounded ill the memor able battle of the R1unong lhela Kiver, when Eracl dock paid dearly for his tvrong-headedncss ni d la ck oi c tution. Jhe General himself was among the fallen on that disastrous day, while, out of eighty six officers in the cngagernent, tweilty-six were killed and thirty-seven wounded of the privates, the killed and wounded amounted to seven hundred and fourteen... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.