620 Obituary. 



His work in ornithology was almost all palseontological. 

 He prepared a catalogue of the fossil birds in the British 

 Museum in 1891, and another of the birds of the Siwalik 

 beds of India (Mem. Geol. Surv. India) in 1885. To 'The 

 Ibis' (1891, pp. 381-410) he contributed a most useful 

 summary of our knowledge of British fossil birds, and later 

 {' Ibis,' 1892, p. 530) a criticism on some work of de Vis 

 on the fossil birds of Queensland and (' Ibis.' 1893, pp. 40- 

 47) on Ameghiao's discoveries of the giant Phororhacos of 

 the Argentine. In 1909 he issued his ' Sportsman's British 

 Bird Book.' 



Mr. Lydekker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1894, and was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological 

 Society in 1902. 



Hans Graf von Beklepsch. 



The news has only recently reached us of the death of 

 Graf von Berlepsch, one of the oldest Honorary Members 

 of our Union, and notwithstanding the present sad state of 

 our relations with Germany we cannot pass it over in silence. 

 It was with the avifauna of the Neotropical region that 

 von Berlepsch chiefly concerned himself. In his ancestral 

 castle, Schloss Berlepsch, near Cassel, he had amassed a 

 very fine and complete collection of South American birds, 

 rivalling most of those contained in the larger national 

 museums. He also had a very complete collection of 

 Humming-birds, with examples of nearly every species 

 mounted in a most artistic manner. 



His contributions to ornithology were nearly all con- 

 cerned with the systematic study of South American birds, 

 and commenced as long ago as the early seventies. A list 

 of them would fill several pages. 



He had been a member of the German Ornithological 

 Society for the last forty-five years, and several times served 

 as President. He was elected a Foreign Member of the 

 B. 0. U. in 1875, and an Honorary Member in 1890. 

 He died on February 37 last, when in his 64ith year. 



