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We must all deplore the loss of this young and enthusi- 

 astic brother-member, and sympathise also with his fellow- 

 worker, Mr. C. Chubb. It is very doubtful, we fear, whetlier 

 it will be possible for the latter to continue unaided the 

 great work which was planned by him and his young and 

 energetic colleague. 



Lord Brabourne was unmarried, and the title passes to his 

 uncle, the Hon. Cecil Marcus KnatchbuU-Hugessen. 



Cecil Macmtllan Dyer. 



C. M. Dyer, M.B.O.U., Second Lieutenant 4th Battalion 

 Rifle Brigade, was killed in Flanders, while on duty in the 

 trenches, on April 8. Mr. Dyer, the second son of the late 

 Louis Dyer, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, and grandson 

 of the late Alexander Macmillan, publisher, was born in 

 Oxford on January 17, 1894. He was educated at Clifton 

 College and at Clirist's College, Cambridge, where, at the 

 end of last summer, he had just completed his second year. 

 He had served in the O.T.C. at Clifton and at Cambridge, 

 and when war broke out at once volunteered for the Special 

 Reserve. He obtained early in August a commission in the 

 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade, and served with his Battalion 

 at Sheerness until the middle of September, when he was 

 transferred to the 4th Battalion, just home from India, and 

 went out to the front with the 27th Division just before 

 Christmas. Though invalided for a time with frozen feet he 

 saw much severe fighting, especially at Neuve Chapelle and 

 St. Eloi, and his senior officers bure warm testimony to his 

 courage and capacity. Mr. Dyer, who was elected a member 

 of the B. O. U. in 1914, had interested himself in the 

 study of birds from his boyhood, and corresponded on the 

 subject with his friend Mr. Warde Fowler. While at Clifton 

 he showed an active interest in ornithology, and when he 

 came up to Cambridge he carried his studies further, and 



