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Scottish Natural History 



No. 65] 19 08 [January 



IN MEMORIAM: HOWARD SAUNDERS. 



With Portrait. 



We greatly regret to record the passing from amongst us 

 of Howard Saunders, on the 20th of October last, at the 

 age of seventy-two. No name is more familiar to British 

 ornithologists than his ; and rightly so, for no one in recent 

 years has given such an impetus to the study of their 

 favourite science. His successful completion of the fourth 

 edition of " Yarrell " under circumstances that were peculiarly 

 trying, established his reputation as a writer on British 

 birds. But the work by which he will be best remembered 

 in this country is the well-known " Manual " which bears his 

 name : a remarkable work, wherein all the essentials con- 

 cerning the numerous and varied members of our avifauna 

 are treated of, with wonderful skill and discrimination, in a 

 single volume. The merits of this book were at once 

 recognised, and it became the standard authority on the. 

 subject. 



Saunders' reputation as a naturalist by no means rests 



upon these important contributions to British ornithological 



literature. He devoted many years of his life to the study 



. of the Terns, Gulls, and Skuas, and his monograph of these 



^' groups published in vol. xxv. of the " Catalogue of Birds in 



o> the British Museum," is in all respects one of the best in that 



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