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up his establishment at Trotton, to his long-attached frient. 

 the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, to be preserved at Good- 

 wood House, where it is now lodged. 



Dr. G. A. Fischer. — We also regret to have received 

 intelligence of the death at Berlin, on November 11th last, of 

 the well-known German explorer and ornithologist, Dr, G. A. 

 Fischer. Dr. Fischer first went out to East Africa in 1876, 

 as a physician at Zanzibar, and made several short excursions 

 into the interior in 1877 and the following years. In De- 

 cember 1882, with the assistance of the Geographical Society 

 of Hamburg, Dr. Fischer undertook a more lengthened ex- 

 pedition. Starting from Pangani, he travelled through 

 Masai-land towards the Victoria Nyanza, and reached the 

 southern end of Lake Naivasha, returning to the coast in 

 the August following. 



In August 1885, after a short holiday in Europe, Dr, Fischer 

 started again from Pangani, for the purpose of carrying 

 succour to Dr. Junker, Emin Bey, and the other Europeans 

 isolated in the Soudan by the Mahdi^s rebellion, with which 

 object he was sent out by Dr. Junker's brother. Dr, Fischer 

 reached the Victoria Nyanza successfully, but on proceeding 

 to skirt the lake on the eastern side found the country 

 devastated by famine, and was forced to return, without 

 succeeding in obtaining any communication with Dr. Junker 

 and his companions. He reached Zanzibar again in June 

 last, and had only recently arrived at Berlin at the time of 

 his unexpected decease. Besides several geographical papers 

 and two books of travel (' Das Masai-land,' Hamburg, 1883, 

 and ' Mehr Licht im dunklen Weltteil,' Hamburg, 1885), 

 Dr. Fischer wrote numerous ornithological notes, which 

 will be found mostly in the ' Journal fur Ornithologie.'' 

 The remarkable Touracou, Corythaix fischeri, obtained by 

 Dr. Fischer in Wito in 1877, will perpetuate his name 

 amongst naturalists, A general summary of his ornitho- 

 logical discoveries will be found in his " Uebersicht der in 

 Ostafrika gesammelten Vogelartcn, rait Angabe der verschie- 

 denen Fundorte," in the J. f. O. 1885, p. 113. 



