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the ytli April, I'JU"), at Brunswick, iit the age of 72. He 

 was chiefly noted for his wonderful collection of birds* eggs 

 obtained from all over the world, which was — next to 

 that oE the British Museum — the largest in the world. 



4. Otto Herman. — This wonderful old Ornitholoo-ist died 

 on the 27th December, 1914, aged 80 years. He was a 

 Hungarian and the son of a surgeon, and being very 

 interested in Natural History from his early youth, started 

 his career as a taxidermist in the Museum of Siebenbergen 

 in 1863. After some years in Parliament, where he fathered 

 some sound laws which considerably advanced scientific 

 research in Hungary, he founded in 1877 the official organ 

 of the Royal Hungarian Museum of Natural Historv. He 

 also organised the Royal Central Bureau of Ornithology, 

 which did such good work in the study of migration and the 

 economic value of the birds of the country. The organ of 

 this Bureau, the "Aquila," was well known throughout the 

 world, and has already run to twenty annual volumes. He 

 was a broad-minded man, full of energy and enthusiasm for 

 his beloved science. 



& 6. Capt. GrERALD Legge and Major C. H. T. White- 

 head. — From "The Ibis '" of January 1916 we see that the 

 War has further thinned the ranks of British ornitholoorists 

 and claimed Capt. Legge and Major Whitehead. The latter 

 served in South Africa during the Boer War, and wrote a 

 paper in "The Ibis" for 1913 on the birds of the Orange 

 River, although his main work was afterwards on the birds 

 of India. He was only 34 when he fell. The former joined 

 Woosnam in the famous expedition to Mount Ruwenzori in 

 East Africa in 1905-6, and his name is commemorated by 

 a new pipit then procured by him (Anthus leggei). In 

 1909 he again joined Woosnam in a trip to Lake Ngami in 

 South Africa, which expedition was highly successful. He 

 joined the South Staffordshires, and fell at the Dardanelles 

 on 9th August, 1915. 



7. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., died on 25th July, 1916, at 

 Epsom at the age of 77. He was appointed Curator of the 

 S. A. Museum, Cape Town, in 1873, retiring in 1895. His 



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