MEMOIE. Xlll 



48,000 specimens, and the arrangement of this vast material 

 occupied over three years. 



The exhibition of a series of the eggs of British Birds involved 

 the preparation of a series of labels, which were re-published by 

 Seebohm as a pamphlet, with some general remarks, as the "Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of British Birds." In the same year he 

 delivered a Presidential Address to the "Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union," at Skipton, on the same subject. This is a particularly 

 interesting essay, and on the lines of this address I have no doubt 

 that he meant to work out the distribution of the Birds of Great 

 Britain for his new edition of the "Eggs of British Birds," of 

 which he was then contemplating the publication. 



His contributions to ornithology in 1893 were not many, but 

 he described a new species of Eared Pheasant (Crossoptilum) from 

 Thibet, and a Zosterops and Merula from Java; and he also gave 

 a further account of the Birds of the Loochoo Islands, and a digest 

 of Nicolsky's article on the cause of variation in the shape of eggs 

 of birds. In this year he was President of the Geographical 

 Section of the British Association at Nottingham, the subject of 

 his address being the "Polar Basin." In 1894 his publications 

 were not many, but he wrote a paper in the "Ibis" on the genus 

 Suthora. 



In 1895 I saw little of Seebohm, as he was busy in preparing 

 his new work on British Birds' Eggs. He was at this time one 

 of the secretaries of the Boyal Geographical Society, and the 

 work involved in preparing for the great Geographical Congress 

 greatly tried him. He had a sharp attack of influenza in the 

 spring, and retired to Biarritz for a time to endeavour to shake 

 it off, but he never regained his strength. He brought out a 

 Supplement to his "Classification of Birds," in which he pro- 

 posed a new arrangement of the class, beginning with the 

 Penguins and ending with the Struthious Birds. 



His last public appearance was made at the meeting of the 

 "British Ornithologists' Club," on the 23rd of October, 1895. 

 It was noticed that during the evening he was much excited 

 and interested with the exhibition of the eggs of the Grey 

 Plover and Little Stint which were brought by Mr. Henry 

 Pearson on that occasion ; they recalled to him his former 

 exploits on the Petchora. After the meeting was over, I was told 



