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velles Archives du Museum/ chiefly relating to Pere Armand 

 David^s discoveries in China, in the ' Revue Zoologique/ the 

 ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society of London, of which 

 Society he was a Corresponding Member, and the ' Bul- 

 letin-' of the Acclimatization Society of Paris. 



We understand that the whole of Verreaux's collection of 

 Nectariniidse, as well as his manuscripts and a considerable 

 portion of his library, have passed into the Paris Museum, 

 than which no fitter destination could be wished. 



By the death of Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt-Drake, at the early 

 age of thirty, we have lost another contributor to the pages of 

 this Journal. Though Mr. Tyrwhitt-Drake wrote two very 

 useful papers on the ornithology of Morocco*, his name will 

 ever be best known from his connexion with the Palestine- 

 Exploration Society, with whose aims and objects he worked 

 with the greatest sympathy and zeal. Mr. Drake was for 

 some time a member of Trinity College, Cambridge; but, owing 

 to his health compelling him to pass each winter in a southern 

 climate, he did not take his degree. The winter of several 

 years he spent in Morocco, where he made the collections of 

 birds already spoken of. In 1868 he visited Egypt, and in 

 the following spring he went to Sinai with the surveying party 

 appointed to make the exploration of the Sinaitic peninsula. 

 The following year, assisted by a grant from the University 

 of Cambridge, he accompanied Prof. Palmer in his exploration 

 of the Badiet el Tih, or the " Wilderness of the Wanderings.^' 

 This was his first connexion with the Palestine Exploration 

 Society. After spending some months in this district, Edom 

 and Moab, and other places to the eastward of Arabah, were 

 traversed. After visiting Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Turkey, 

 Mr. Drake returned to England for a short time. He soon, 

 however, undertook, under the auspices of the Palestine-Ex- 

 ploration Society, the investigation of the inscribed stones of 

 Hamath, which have since proved so perplexing to palaeogra- 

 phers. Having accomplished this task he joined Captain 

 Burton, then Consul at Damascus, in an expedition to the vol- 



* " Birds of Tangier and Eastern Morocco," Ibis, 1807, p. 421, and 

 " Further Notes on the Birds of Morocco," Bis, 1809, p. 147. 



