page_title: John Alexander Harvie-Brown
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: John Alexander Harvie-Brown / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: travelsofnatural011905harv (find matches) Title: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916 Subjects: Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travel Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: good, coming instreams from the lakes. People do not cut the hay onthe islands. Sid6rofi:s steamer is 120 feet long and of85 horse-power. It is better to go via Mezen. There is swampyground near Zylma, on the Mezen route, 240 versts,where new huts are built. Food for the journey fromMezen to Ust Zylma should be taken from Archangel.It is two or three days journey from Archangel toMezen. Flax-tow and cotton-wad can be had at Ijma. Sidoroffhas stayed at Bouligans house at Ust Zylma.* A goodhouse in Kuja is Gregory Koriapanoffs. From UstZylma back to the porterage between the rivers Zylmaand Peza takes about three days. Such was a summary of the information we receivedfrom Katzoff, which we found very good. We hope to see Mr. Schmidt, his present employer,to-morrow at Solombola, and, if possible, arrange to securehis services for four months. We saw also a priest who has lived among the Samo-yedes in the Ural, east of Petchora, and he will call■- The house we ourselves occupied later. Text Appearing After Image: ox THE ROAD TO 3IEZEN (sUMMEE). KULOI RIVER. (See page 248. P ETCH OR A 231 to-morrow evening, when we hope to get f5till moreinformation from him. Kae has had some .£60 worth of old silver pm-chased forhim in Archangel by Mrs. Birse. Some of it is verycurious and rich. Mrs. Craemers came in the evening, and we had a longchat about Carl and his prospects. The eldest son, whomI have not yet seen, is engaged to Miss Giernet, a sisterof the lady who accompanied Alston and myself on ourtrip to Suzma in 1872. To-night the temperature was —20° R. equal to —16°below zero of Fahrenheit. March 20. On Saturday, the 20th of March, we called uponMr. Schmidt, and it became quite certain that we cannotobtain Katzoffs services. We saw the chief priest of the Archangel Cathedral,Father Inokentia, who at one time resided for seventeenyears among the Samoyedes, at Kolva, on the Ussa, upto 1847, and who made sundry trips to the Ural whilstengaged in converting (?) the Samoyedes. Castren, theSwede Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: John Alexander Harvie-Brown FRSE, FZS was a Scottish ornithologist and naturalist.
context_section_description: J. A. Harvie-Brown was born near Larbert in central Scotland, the only son of John Harvie-Brown and his wife, Elizabeth Spottiswoode, who was the daughter of Thomas Spottiswoode of Dunipace (entitled "Thomas Spottiswoode, 6th of Dunipace"). J. A. Harvie-Brown inherited approximately 2100 acres near Dunipace. 
  He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, and then attended both the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University. 
  As a wealthy landowner, he could dedicate himself to ornithology and other naturalistic studies without pursuing a profession. He made ornithological visits to Norway, Russia, Finland and Transylvania. Perhaps his most famous expedition was with Henry Seebohm to the lower reaches of the Pechora River in 1875, when the eggs of the grey plover and the little stint were discovered. For many years Harvie-Brown cruised each summer among the islands of the Scottish coast in his yacht the "Shiantelle" (built in 1887 in Fraserburgh). He, with H. W. Feilden, collected many eggs and birds' skins from the Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Faroes and even the island of Rockall (no eggs but birds' skins in the case of Rockall). However, in January 1897 a fire almost totally destroyed the collection.
  Harvie-Brown died in 1916, after a number of years of ill health. His burial was at Dunipace Old Cemetery. His publications in the scientific literature number close to 250 items. He was elected an Honorary Life Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. In 1912 the U. of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.
caption: Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe (1905)
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