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received his medical training in the University of Edinburgh, was a 

 Fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical Society since 1837, and from 

 1867 onwards resided in Scotland, taking a warm interest in all 

 that could aid in the progress of Botany in the country. He took 

 a peculiarly warm interest in Forestry, advocating the national im- 

 portance of the subject. He spent a considerable part of his life in 

 Madras, where he held the Professorship of Botany in Madras 

 University, and aided largely in establishing the Indian Forest 

 Department, to which he contributed valuable reports. He pub- 

 lished numerous papers, chiefly on economic botany, to the Trans- 

 actions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. He died at an advanced 

 age at Stravithie on igth May 1895. 



DP. David Lyall, R.N., who died at Cheltenham on 2nd March 

 1895, i s tne subject of an appreciative obituary notice by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker (Journ. Bot., July 1895, PP- 209-211). Dr. 

 Lyall was born at Auchinblae, in Kincardineshire, on ist June 

 1817, and was Assistant- Surgeon and Botanist on H.M.S. Terror 

 during the famous expedition of Sir John Ross from 1839 to 1842, 

 of which Sir Joseph was also a member. He served in subsequent 

 expeditions, and on all occasions devoted attention to botany, 

 bringing home valuable collections. The herbarium made by him 

 in duties on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains afforded 

 materials for a valuable contribution to the Linnean Society 's Journal 

 in 1863. He retired in 1873, an d attained the rank of Deputy 

 Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets before his death. 



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HELIGOLAND AS AN ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY : THE 

 RESULT OF FIFTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE. By Heinrich Gatke. 

 Translated by Rudolph Rosenstock, M.A. Oxon. (Edinburgh : 

 David Douglas, 10 Castle Street, 1895.) 



It is with the greatest pleasure that we have to notice the 

 English edition of Mr. Gatke's " Birds of Heligoland." This was first 

 published in German at Brunswick in 1891 ; the manuscript having 

 been completed, after the labour of years, by the author on igth May 

 1890, on his seventy-seventh birthday. The present English edition 

 is a literal translation of the original, made with great care by Mr. 

 Rudolph Rosenstock, M.A. Oxon., the proof-sheets having been 

 revised by Mr. Gatke himself. 



It is impossible to exaggerate the value and importance to 

 English ornithologists of this admirable work a work which is the 

 outcome of fifty years' observations, carried on day by day and 

 season after season in one of the very best bird observatories in the 



