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part in several well-known missions to outlying parts of 

 the Indian Empire. In 1868 he accompanied, as scientific 

 officer, an expedition through Burmah into Western China, 

 and again in 1874 he was sent in a similar capacity on a 

 second journey of the same character, with instructions to 

 proceed via Bhamo to Shanghai if possible. On this 

 occasion, however, the company was attacked by the 

 Chinese, and was obliged to retreat. The zoological results 

 of these two expeditious were described by Dr. Anderson in 

 a well-known quarto volume, published in London in 1878. 

 A third, in which Dr. Anderson took a prominent part, 

 w^as that sent by the Trustees of the Indian Museum 

 in 1881 to the coasts of Lower Burmah, to investigate the 

 zoology of the Mergui Archipelago. A list of the birds 

 collected on that occasion was published by Dr. Anderson in 

 the Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. vol. xxi. p. 136). 



In 1887, after twenty-three years' service under the Indian 

 Government, Dr. Anderson returned home, and settled in 

 South Kensington, where he devoted himself entirely to 

 zoological work, and was a well-known attendant at the 

 Royal, Geographical, Linnean, and Zoological Societies. 

 Of the last-named he was for many years one of the 

 Vice-Presidents. Being in delicate health. Dr. Anderson 

 usually passed his winters in Egypt, and devoted his energies 

 mainly to the exploration of the Fauna of that country. In 

 1898 he published a splendid volume on its Herpetology, 

 and up to the time of his death was busily engaged 

 on a corresponding work on the Egyptian Mammals. Dr. 

 Anderson died at Buxton on the 15th of August last, at the 

 age of 66, after a short illness. Besides the works above 

 mentioned, he published in 1876 an excellent essay on the 

 osteology and pterylosis of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper 

 ( Euripior'hynclms pygnKSUs), 



The veteran Ornithologist Dr. Gustav Hartlaub of 

 Bremen (one of our Honorary Members since 1860) died at 

 his residence in that city on the 20th of November last, 

 at the mature age of 87. We propose to defer our remarks 

 on his life and work until the next number. 



