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Suudevall's clear and ^comprehensive style. Wc believe that 

 the MS. of this book has long been finished, and that the 

 fault of its slow issue from the press rests with the i)ublisher. 



We cannot here give any thing like a resvnie of all the 

 papers published by Sundevall during his long career ; but we 

 cannot omit to mention his ' Conspectus Avium Picinarum/ 

 which we look upon as quite one of the best works in the 

 whole of ornithological literature. It is a masterpiece of con- 

 ciseness and clearness, in consulting which, we do not hesi- 

 tate to say that more light is to be derived than from Mal- 

 herbe^s ponderous illustrated volumes, which it supplements 

 and explains. 



Sundevall was Director of the Museum of Stockholm, the 

 building of which was reconstructed under his superinten- 

 dence. The arrangement of the contents of this museum was 

 elaborated with great care under his eye. 



John Edward Gray, so well known for his many works 

 on various subjects of natural history, and for his long con- 

 nexion with the British Museum as keeper of the zoological 

 department, Avas the author, during the early part of his 

 career, of several works on ornithological subjects. The chief 

 of these, ' Indian Zoology,^ was intended to make public the 

 large collection of drawings formed by the late Major-General 

 Hardwicke; but after about 180 of these drawings had been 

 published, the work was discontinued. Other papers of his 

 are to be found in the ' Zoological Miscellany,'' of which lie 

 was the editor. Since then nothing relating to ornithology 

 seems to have been written by Dr. Gray, he having turned 

 his attention to other subjects, and left the study of birds to 

 his brother, George Robert Gray, who predeceased him in 

 1872. Dr. Gray died on the 7th of March 1875, having just 

 completed his 75th year. 



