784 Obituary. 



of this part of the collection, with an itinerary by Woosnara, 

 will be found in the ' Ibis,' 1912, pp. 355-404. 



" In 1910 Woosnam was appointed by the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies to the vacant post of game warden in 

 British East Africa, a position which he held till he returned 

 to England a few months ago and rejoined his old regiment, 

 the Worcesters, at Devonport. Thence he was sent to join 

 the 4th Battalion at the Dardanelles, where he was killed 

 on June 4 while gallantly leading his men in an attack on 

 the Turkish trenches. As his colonel wrote, ' such men are 

 few and far between ; his name was specially mentioned for 

 good and gallant conduct on June 4.' 



" As game warden in British East Africa he was a great 

 success, and brought his department into a high state of 

 efficiency. He did his duty without fear or favour, but was 

 nevertheless one of the most popular and highly esteemed 

 men in the Protectorate. He has been justly described by 

 one of his colleagues as ' the whitest man he ever met.' 

 He was mainly instrumental in bringing together the Inter- 

 national Conference for the Protection of Wild Animals in 

 Africa, which met last year in London, and his carefully 

 thought out and thoroughly practical plans were generally 

 agreed to, and will no doubt come into operation when peace 

 lias been once more restored, but sadly will he be missed 

 during the carrying out of them." 



Lewis Nkil Griffith Ramsay. 



Although not a member of the Union, ornithology has 

 suffered a great loss in the death, at the early age of 25, of 

 Lewis N. G. Ramsay at Neuve Chapelle on March 21 last. 



Born at Aberdeen on February 3, 1890, he was the second 

 son of Professor Sir William Ramsay, the well-known 

 archaeologist and classical explorer. He studied at Aberdeen 

 University and subsequently at Christ's College, Cambridge. 

 He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen in 1910 and B.Sc. in 

 1913. 



From an early age Ramsay was a bird-lover and amassed 



