562 Obituary. 



are the work of his own industrious pencil. Tlie back- 

 grounds also show great artistic talent, and the colouring, 

 executed by the Misses Sharpe, is much to be praised. 



We can scarcely doul)t that this series of volumes, which^ 

 when complete, will contain figures of all the British Birds 

 ordinarily met with, will attain great po})ularity. 



XXXV.— 0/^/7«fl?7/. 



Dr. E. D. DicKsox, C.M.Z.S., Dr. St. Geokcje Mivaut, 

 F.R.S., and Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, F.M.Z.S. 



In '^The Times' of March 28th last we find recorded the 

 death on the previous day, at Constantinople, of Edward 

 Dalzel Dickson, one of the oldest Corresponding Members 

 of the Zoological Society of London, having been elected to 

 that honour in 1840. In the first series of the Zoological 

 Society^s ' Proceedings' will bs found several communications 

 from this formerly active correspondent, who, in 1839, in 

 conjunction with Mr. H. J. lloss, transmitted to that Society 

 numerous specimens of birds obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Erzeroura, where he was then resident (see P. Z. S. 1839, 

 pp. 119, 130). These Avere determined by Louis Eraser, at 

 that time Curator of the Society's Museum, and their names 

 were recorded in the ' Proceedings/ accompanied by the col- 

 lectors' notes. So far as we know, tliey are still almost the 

 only authority on the birds of this high district of Asia 

 Minor. Dr. Dickson was for many years Physician to the 

 British Embassy at Constantinople, and there made a con- 

 siderable collection of the fishes of the Bosphorus, which 

 was presented in 1839 to the British Museum (see P. Z. S. 

 1839, p. 135). After retiring from his official post, he 

 settled again at Constantinople, and died there on the 27th 

 of March last at an ''advanced age." 



Dr. St. George Mivart, E.B.S., \'ice-President of the 

 Zoological Society and a Member of the B.O.U. since 1892^ 

 whose forni and voice wore Familiar to all attendants at 



