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that Sovereign. This medal was conferred on the occasion 

 of the Second Ornithological Congress at Budapest, when 

 Dr. Sharpe delivered his presidential address to Section A, 

 on tlie ' Classification of Birds.' He was also President of 

 Section A at the Third Ornithological Congress at Paris in 

 1900, and received from the President of the French Republic 

 his appointment as "Officier de I'Instruction publique." In 

 1905 Dr. Sharpe was President of the Fourth Ornithological 

 Congress in London, and will remain President of the 

 Permanent Ornithological Committee till 1910, when Pro- 

 fessor Anton Reichenow will undertake the duties. 



Bowdler Sharpe was the first to conceive the idea of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club in 1902, and for some years 

 edited its 'Bulletin.' He is Foreign or Honorary Member 

 of all the principal Ornithological Societies of the world, and 

 has contributed a very large number of papers to ' The Ibis,' 

 as will be seen from the pages of the General Subject-Index. 



His work has not been limited to the birds of any 

 particular country, but those of Africa have always been a 

 favourite subject of investigation with him, while one of his 

 best-known works is his edition of Layard's ' Birds of South 

 Africa.' 



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