“ Onlookers were brought to see that ornithology and zoology were alive, and he did much to make nature study more attractive, yet he yielded to none in the scientific temper of his mind and set his face against popularizing his subject at the expense of dignity and accuracy. ”

“ James Edmund Harting, who died yesterday at Essex House, Barnes in his 87th year, was formerly librarian and assistant secretary of the Linnean Society, and was notable both as a naturalist, and as a sportsman. ”

“ In 1871 he became a naturalist editor of the Field, and later shooting editor also. He did much to revive the old sport of falconry. When King Edward VII. visited India as Prince of Wales in the 'seventies, Mr. Harting was asked to go out as naturalist to the expedition, but to his lasting regret he could not be absent so long from his work. ”