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of wliat was then the ' Freie Hanse Stadt/ He was educated 

 first at the schools of his native city and subsequently at the 

 Universities o£ Bonn, Berlin, and Gottingen, where he studied 

 Medicine and Natural History; he took the degree of M.D. 

 at the last-named University. In Berlin he was associated 

 with Count Keyserling, the elder Blasius, and Lichtenstein, 

 and during a subsequent tour to Austria, France, and 

 England, made friends with many other Naturalists of that 

 period, lleturning home, he settled in Bremen as a prac- 

 tising Physician, and passed the whole of his life in that 

 city, only quitting it occasionally for a short summer vaca- 

 tion, which was usually passed in the Alps, or in some other 

 quiet retreat in Germany or Italy. 



Hartlaub talked and wrote English perfectly, and had 

 many devoted friends in this country. When resident at 

 Oxford (1846-50), the author of this notice found his master 

 and teacher in Ornithology, the late H. E. Strickland, in 

 close correspondence with Hartlaub. One of the first ex- 

 cursions made by the writer on the Continent at that period 

 included a visit to Bremen, in order to make the personal 

 acquaintance of this active and intelligent correspondent, as 

 he had quickly become. 



Hartlaub had an excellent library, but kept no private 

 collection. All his specimens were placed in the Museum 

 of his native city, where he acted as an honorary supervisor 

 of the Zoological collection throughout his life. Our friend 

 and fellow-worker, Dr. Otto Finsch, was appointed Curcitor 

 of the Bremen Museum in 1864, and was for many yeiirs 

 closely associated with Hartlaub in his work. 



As early as 1844 Hartlaub published a catalogue of the 

 Natural -History Collections in the Bremen Museum, and in 

 1846 first undertook the Report on the progress of Orni- 

 thology for Wiegmann^s 'Archiv,' which he carried on for 

 about 25 years. No one was better acquainted with the 

 whole range of ornithological literature during that period , 

 or could have performed this difficult task more efficiently. 

 In 1847 a very useful piece of work was accomplished by 

 Hartlaub, for which students of American Ornithology will 



