OBITUARIES. 



JOHN CORDEAUX 



Born, 1831 ; Died, August 1, 1899 



John Cordeaux was the eldest son of the Rev. John Cordeaux, formerly rector 

 of Hooton-Roberts, Yorkshire. He was born at Foston Rectory, in Leicester- 

 shire. The ordinary occupations of a country life gave him opportunities for 

 the especial study of bird life, with which his name has been so long associated. 

 Among his earliest publications was one on the birds of the Humber district, 

 which has remained the standard for that district. Ever keen on the migratory 

 habits of birds, he strove hard to interest the coast-guard and lighthouse-keepers 

 to keep continuous records at their various stations, and succeeded in obtaining 

 a great variety of useful and interesting data, both on the migratory habits of 

 our own birds and the occasional visits of strangers. Nor did he neglect other 

 interests, for he was an enthusiastic botanist, archaeologist, and student of folk- 

 lore. Cordeaux was first president of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. We 

 are indebted to the Times for the facts in the above notice. 



The following deaths are announced : — The entomologist Perez Arcas in 

 Madrid ; Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton, the American ethnologist, at Atlantic 

 City, New Jersey, on July 31, at the age of 62 years; the botanist Eugene 

 Gonod dArtemare, at Ussel (Corriege), on June 16 ; the psychologist 

 Freiherr Karl du Prel, who made a number of contributions to evolution- 

 literature, at Heiligkreuz in the Tyrol, on August 5, at the age of 60 ; Dr. 

 Pasquale Freda, director of the agricultural experiment station at Rome, on 

 July 4 ; Mr. N. R. Harrington, member of the Senff Zoological Expedition, 

 instructor in Western Reserve University, at Atbara, July 27 ; Charles 

 Howie, of St. Andrews, who published a list of the mosses of Fife and Kinross ; 

 St. Th. Jakc"ic, professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at 

 Belgrad, on May 4 ; the French geologist Adolphe Legeal, murdered in the 

 Soudan ; Dr. Joseph Mies, anatomist and anthropologist, on June 9, in Koln ; 

 A. de Marbaix, professor of zootechnic at the Catholic university of Louvain, 

 at Meerhout, near Antwerp, on August 5, in his 74th year ; Robert H. 

 Schmitt, geographer in German East Africa, on May 10, in Mangali, at the 

 age of 29 ; the mycologist Johann N. Schnabl, in Miinchen, on June 16, at 

 the age of 45 ; Henri Leveque de Vilmorin, a notable cultivator of plants, 

 first vice-president of the Paris Societe d'Horticulture. 



20 NAT. SC. VOL. XV. NO. 92. 3OI 



