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PERCY ROYCROFT LOWE, who died on August 18, was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire, on January 3, 1870. He was educated privately and went to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a B.A., and afterwards qualified in medicine and surgery at Guy‘s Hospital, London. He served as house physician and surgeon at two hospitals in the Midlands. In 1899 he volunteered for service in South Africa and was appointed medical officer in charge of Princess Christian‘s hospital train. It was while he was in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology and began to make a collection. On the termination of hostilities he returned to Great Britain and a short time afterwards was appointed private physician to Sir Frederic Johnston. This was a most fortunate appointment for an ornithologist, as Sir Frederic Johnston spent the winters abroad in his private yacht and during the next six years Lowe visited the West Indies and a number of islands in the Atlantic. On these voyages he took every opportunity to study birds and brought together a collection of some three thousand skins which he later presented to the national collection. Lowe contributed a series of papers on his collections, including a study of the genus Coereba, in which he paid special attention to the variations in colour in that genus.
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KINNEAR, N. Dr. P. R. Lowe, O.B.E. Nature 162, 443 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162443a0
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