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manner and to have laid the foundations of a tisk of alrmst 

 illimitable extent, the unravellino; of which must be a work of 

 generations. "Wliile for this Salvin's memory will be for ever 

 dear to all English-speaking zoologists, he will be remembered 

 in Ornithological circles as ooe of the founders of ' The Ibis ' 

 and editor ot" its third series. His two volumes on the Trochilidae 

 and Procellariidae of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 

 and his ' Catalogue of the Strickland Collection of Birds in the 

 Cambridge Museum ' will continue standard w^orks of reference, 

 a lasting testimony to his zeal and accuracy of observariou. 

 Among his last acts was the completion and arrangement of the 

 late Lord Lilf )rd's 'Coloured Figures of British Birds.' As 

 author, editor, friend, he was equally and at all times reliable. 



Salvin was a Pellow of the Boyal, Zoological, and Entomo- 

 logical Societies, and he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 on 21st January, 1S64. In 1897 his old Colleo;e elected him an 

 Honorary Fellow. With whatever body he became associated 

 his personality gained him an immediate popularity, rapidly 

 developing into tinist and appointment to office of responsibility. 

 His death was due to a heart trouble, which for years necessi- 

 tated the greatest caution in his movements. He continued 

 patient, ever ready to help in the work he loved. He led a good 

 lite, and has set us a noble example of enterprise and disinterested 

 enthusiasm in the cause of scientific advancement. 



John Tax Vooest. — In the death of John Van Voorst on July 

 24th, lb98, at the advanced age of 94, there has passed away an 

 earnest benefactor to biological literature and an enthusiastic 

 admirer of all that is beautiful and instructive in i*^ature — 

 a man whose name will be gratefully remembered by the 

 present generation of British naturalists as that of the pioneer 

 publisher of the books of their youth. Van Voorst was of 

 Dutch descent, his family having settled for several generations 

 in England. After an apprenticeship to one Eichard XieholU 

 of Wakefield and an exjjerieuce of years in the employ of 

 Messrs. Longman, he started business on h s own account in 

 1835. Commencing with admirably illustrated editions of Grra\^ 

 and Goldsmith, he s )on espoused the cause which made him 

 famous, namely, that of doing siuiilar justice to the Natural History 

 literature of his time. Tarrell's ' British Fishes ' and ' British 

 Birds,' Bell's ' British Quadrupeds ' and ' Eeptiles,' Hewitsoa's 

 ' Eggs of British Birds,' Knox's ' Ornithological E-ambles in 

 Sussex' and ' Game Birds and Wild Fowl,' maybe mentioned 

 as works which rapidly and deservedly made him famous among 

 working naturalists; while others of a less pretentious order, such 

 as the popular treatises on the ' Earthworm and Housefly ' and the 

 ' Honey Bee ' by Samuelson and Hicks, in due course brought 

 him favour with the larger public. And when to these there are 

 added the ' Actinologia Britannica,' the ' Naturalist's Gambles,' 

 and other well-kuowu zoological works by Gosse, and, on the 



