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Ornithological Society, and other periodicalSj and appears 

 to have been a most energetic collector of birds and eggs. 

 His collection has been bequeathed to the Natural- History 

 Society of St. Gall. 



Death of Mr. G. D. Rowley. — With much regret also we 

 announce the death of Mr. George Dawson Rowley, a 

 Member of this Union since 186+, and a well-known and 

 familiar friend to many of us. Mr. Rowley was the eldest 

 son of the late Mr. George William Rowley, of Priory 

 Hill, in Huntingdon, who, singularly enough, expired on the 

 same day as his son, after a long illness. Mr. Rowley was 

 born in 1822, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where 

 he took the degree of B.A. in 1846. Both at school and at 

 the University he was a companion of the late John Wolley, 

 whose early passion for ornithology he shared. Many short 

 contributions from Mr. Rowley's pen have appeared in ' The 

 Field,' * The Zoologist,' * The Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society,' and in this Journal, generally relating either to the 

 natural history of the neighbourhood of Brighton, where he 

 chiefly resided, or to the rarities in birds and eggs acquired 

 for his own collection. But the work by which he will be 

 chiefly known will be his ' Ornithological Miscellany ' *, the 

 third and concluding volume of which was brought to a com- 

 pletion just as his fatal illness commenced. Mr. Rowley died 

 at his residence, Chichester House, East Cliff, Brighton, on 

 the 21st of November last. 



* See notices of this work, 'Ibis,' 1875, p. 509) 1877, pp. 122, 243, 

 378, 481 ; 1878, pp. 193, 471. 



