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XXXI.— 0*i/w«r^. 



Dr. Emil IIolub, Herr Carl Euler, Lt.-Col. the Rt. Hon. 

 E. H. Cooper, and Lord Malcolm. 



Dr. Emil Holub, the well-known African traveller and 

 collector, died at Vienna on the 21st of February last, in 

 the 55th year of his age. Dr. Holub was a native of 

 Bohemia and of Czech descent. He was educated as an 

 apothecary, but emigrated early in life to South Africa, and 

 practised as a doctor at Kimberley and elsewhere. His 

 original inducement to penetrate into the far interior of the 

 country was his ardent taste for Natural History, especially 

 Ornithology, to the pursuit of which his first seven years 

 of travel were mainly devoted. His journeys were described 

 in his 'Sieben Jahre in Siid-Afrika^ (Wien, 1881), a work 

 which was translated into English and published in London. 

 In conjunction with the late Freiherr v. Pelzeln, the col- 

 lection of birds made on this occasion was described by him 

 in a volume entitled ' Beitrage zur Ornithologie Siidafrikas' 

 (Vienna, 1882)*. Dr. Holub subsequently returned to 

 South Africa, and made a more extended expedition into the 

 Marotse and Mashukulumbe countries north of the Zambesi, 

 now forming part of Northern lihodesia. During his four 

 years' wanderings on this occasion (1883-87) a large col- 

 lection of native arms and implements, as well as of natural 

 objects, was made, and was exhibited at Vienna on his 

 return to Europe. This journey was described in his work 

 ' Von der Capstadt ins Laud dcr Maschukulumbe ' (2 vols., 

 Vienna, 1890). 



Carl Euler, the well-known Brazilian ornithologist, died 

 at Rio de Janeiro on the 27th of Novemlier, 1901. He was 

 born at Basel, in Switzerland, in 1834, and after finishing 

 his studies at the Gymnasium there, emigrated to Brazil in 

 1853, and settled at the German colony of Cantagallo, in 

 the province of Rio. Here he became Swiss Vice-Consul 

 and owned a large farm called the Fazenda do Bom Vallc, 



* For notice of this work, see ' Ibis,' 1882, p. 402. 



