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the priucipal Biological Societies of the metropolis^ died at 

 his residence in London on the 1st of April last. Mivart 

 was born in London in 1827, and was educated at King's 

 College and Oscot. Although called to the Bar, he devoted 

 his time and talents almost entirely to scientific and literary 

 pursuits, and, besides writing numerous works, chiefly bio- 

 logical, was a constant contributor to some of our best-known 

 periodicals and reviews. Mivart was also an accomplished 

 speaker, and was at one time Lecturer at St. Mary's Hospital 

 Medical School, and subsequently Professor of Biology at 

 University College. It is not necessary on the present 

 occasion to enter into his well-known controversies with 

 Professor Huxley, and more recently with Cardinal Vaughan, 

 but we must not omit here to allude to his ornithological 

 work, which was of considerable importance. Mivart had a 

 good knowledge of the osteology of Birds, and published 

 valuable memoirs on the axial skeletons of the Ostriches 

 and of the Pelicans in the Zoological Society^s ' Transactions,' 

 and on the hyoids of the Parrots in the same Society's ' Pro- 

 ceedings/ In 1892 he issued a useful ' Manual on the 

 Elements of Ornithology' (see Ibis, 1892, p. 568), and in 

 1896 a quarto Monograph on the Lories, beautifully illus- 

 trated by Keulemans. But it cannot be said that he greatly 

 increased our knowledge of this splendid group of birds, 

 except as regards its osteology and distribution, which were 

 carefully studied and explained in the last-named work. 



The late Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards, well known 

 to all of us who have had occasion to consult specimens iu 

 the Museum d' Histoire Naturelle of Paris, or in the adjoining 

 Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes (of both of which well- 

 known institutions he was the administrative Director), ouo-ht 

 not, perhaps, to be called an ornithologist in the narrow 

 sense of that term usually applied to it, but had a large and 

 varied knosvledge of the whole Animal Kingdom, and was 

 the author of several important works on the Class of Birds. 

 The son of Henri Milne-Edwards, also a well-known zoologist, 

 he was born in Paris in 1835, and took his medical degree 



