748 Obituary. 



Additiotis to the U.S. National Museum. — From the report 

 of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 

 ending June 30th, 1900, we extract the following para- 

 graph : — 



" The Division of Birds has received the Goodfellow 

 Collection of Humming-birds, comprising about 1.200 speci- 

 mens ; 300 specimens of the birds of the United States 

 of Columbia, from Mr. Outram Bangs ; 500 specimens of 

 Hawaiian birds from Mr. H. W. Henshaw ; a specimen of 

 the Cuban Macaw {Ara ti'icolor), now believed to be ex- 

 tinct, from Maj. W. A. Glassford, U.S.A. ; and a skeleton of 

 the rare Harris's Cormorant, from Leland-Stanford-Junior 

 University.^" 



XLIX. — Obituary. 



The Abbe Armand David, Mr. Lionel Wiglesworth, 

 and Mr. William Doherty. 



Ornithology has sustained a severe loss in the person of the 

 Abbe Armand David, the indefatigable explorer of parts of 

 the mysterious interior of China now practically closed to the 

 scientific traveller, and the discoverer of many new facts in 

 Botany and Geology as well as in Zoology. 



Born at Espalette in the Department of the Basses 

 Pyrenees on the 7th of September, 1826, and entered at 

 St. Lazare in 1848, he devoted his untiring energies, after a 

 preliminary training of ten years' educational work at the 

 College of Savone in Italy, to the service of the Lazarist 

 Missionary establishments in China. 



In 1863 the Abbe was placed in charge of a French school 

 in Pekin, and at once began to give unmistakable proofs of 

 his great interest in science by the valuable collections that 

 he transmitted to the National Museum of his native country, 

 with the full approval of his ecclesiastical superiors. At the 

 same time he was amassing a collection for his scholastic 

 establishment, and had begun to correspond with and profit 



