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and executors, of whom Mr. Van Voorst was one, by our Librarian, 

 Mr. Kippist, and by other Members of the Society, who were 

 desirous of paying this last sad tribute of respect. . Since his death, 

 his extensive library of Natural History books, and his valuable col- 

 lections of British Birds and Fishes have been sold by auction ; and 

 the latter have been thus transferred to the British Museum. But 

 his works will convey to posterity a faithful picture of his distin- 

 guished merits as a naturalist ; while his portrait, by Mrs. Carpenter, 

 the result of a subscription among forty Fellows of the Society in 

 1889, will continue to adorn our Meeting-Eoom, and to recall to 

 the minds of our Fellows the memory of a most valuable Mfember 

 of the Society, and of a thoroughly amiable, estimable, and ho- 

 nourable man. 



The titles of his multifarious papers are given at length, and 

 with but few exceptions, in the ' Bibliographia Zoologise et Geo- 

 logise ' of the E/ay Society, and amount to no fewer than seventy. 

 It is proper, however, that I should here enumerate his contribu- 

 tions to our own publications, which are as follows ; — 



I. In our Transactions : — 



Observations on the Tracheae of Birds, with Descriptions and 

 Eepresentations of several not hitherto figured. — lAnn. Trans. 

 XV. 378. 



Description of a species of Tringa, kiUed in Cambridgeshire, 

 new to England and Europe. — Ihid. xvi. 109. 



On the Organs of Voice in Birds. — Ihid. xvi. 305. 



On a new species of "Wild Swan, taken in England, and hitherto 

 confounded with the Hooper. — Ihid. xvi. 445. 



Description of the Organs of Voice in a new species of "Wild 

 Swan {Cygnus huecinator, Eichards.). — Ihid. xvii. 1. 



Descriptions of Three British Species of Freshwater Fishes, be- 

 longing to the genus Leuciscus of Klein. — Ihid. xvii. 5. 



On the Habits and Structure of the G-reat Bustard {Otis tarda 

 of Linnaeus). — Ihid. xxi. 155. 



II. In our Proceedings : — 



Notice of an Interwoven Mass of Filaments of Conferva flu- 

 viatilis of extraordinary size. — Proc. Idrm. Soc. i. p. 65. 



III. In our Journal : — 



On the Influence of the Sexual Organ in modifying External 

 Character. — Journ. Linn. Soc. i. p. 76. 



