BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 71 



3. Biographical Notices of the Original Members of the 

 British Ornithologists^ Union, of the i^rincipal Contributors 

 to the First Series of ' The Ibis,' and of the Officials. 



These Biograj)hies fall naturally into two groups — firstly, 

 Obituary Notices taken from the pages o£ ' The Ibis/ 

 and, secondly, sketches of the lives of those Members who 

 are still in our midst. The former have been submitted, in 

 almost every case, to the surviving relatives or to intimate 

 friends for correction or amplification ; but of most of 

 them it is not now possible to determine the original 

 author. The latter have either been written by the 

 Member himself or have been compiled from notes 

 furnished by him. 



It should be noted that, to avoid a separate heading. 

 Dr. R. BowDLER Sharpe, the President of the Fourth 

 International Ornithological Congress, and a never-failing 

 Contributor to our Journal, is placed with those who 

 wrote in the First Series of ' The Ibis,^ though the 

 earliest paper from his pen was received later than 

 1864. 



