1 liavo :iucc(k'(l witli i)leasur(.' to the reciui'.st, of the Director of 

 the Museum to mo through the pres8 this and the two remaining 

 Volumes for whitli the arrangements were made during my term 

 of office. 



Finally, this would seem to be an appropriate place to pay a 

 tribute to the numory of Henry Seebohm, by whose death, on 

 November 26th, Urnithology has lost a most earnest and ardent 

 student and the British Museum one of its most generous friends 

 and benefactors. For the past fifteen years he took a deep interest 

 in the growtli and arrangement of the Collection of Eirds in the 

 British Museum, contributing, without stint, either from his own 

 Collection or by special purchase, any specimens that were required 

 to comiilete the Museum series or to aid in the preparation of the 

 Catalogue. In the latter work he took an active part as the author 

 of the Fifth Volume, which treated of the Warblers and Thrushes. 

 After presenting his immense Collection of Eggs, and incorporating 

 it with that of the Museum, he undertook and completed a 

 Jklanuscript Catalogue of the whole. By his Will he conferred his 

 last benefit on the Museum, bequeathing to the Trustees the entire 

 C'ollection which at the time of his death was still in his possession. 



ALBERT (itJNTHEll, 



Keeper of the Zoological Department 

 {retired'). 

 J'.riti^h Miiseiiiu (X. 11.), 

 December IR, 189:). 



