CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS, of Islay Gaelic scholar, was born on Dec. 29, 1822, and died at Cannes on Feb. 17, 1885. Educated at Eton and at Edinburgh university, he occupied minor government posts, and employed his leisure in collecting, translating and editing the folklore of the western Highlands, taken down from the lips of the natives. His Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 186o-62) form a most im portant contribution to the subject. Campbell invented the sunshine recorder used in most of the British meteorological stations.