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Mr. HOWARD SAUNDERS. 



Howard Sauuders, noted both as a traveller and an orni- 

 thologist, was a conspicuous figure among the zoologists 

 o£ the Metropolis ; and his writings, marked as they were 

 by exceptional care and accuracy, will serve as a model for 

 many future generations. He spared no pains to make his 

 own work as perfect as possible, and was never known to 

 refuse his aid, in the interest of science, to those occupied 

 in similar pursuits, while his various activities were only 

 terminated by his death, which occurred at his London 

 residence, 7 Radnor Place, W., on October 20th, 1907, at 

 the age of 72 years, after a long illness borne with the 

 greatest fortitude. 



The son of Alexander and Elizabeth Saunders, he was 

 born in London on Sept. 16th; 1835, and received his early 

 education at Leatherhead and Rottingdean, subsequently to 

 which he entered the office of Anthony Gibbs & Sons, 

 merchants and bankers in the City. The foreign associa- 

 tions of that Avell- known firm caused his thoughts to turn 

 in the direction of South America, and, being naturally of 

 an adventurous and energetic disposition, in 1855 he deter- 

 mined to leave England on a journey to Brazil and Chile. 

 In 1856 he rounded Cape Horn on the way to Pcrn"^, where 

 he resided continuously till 1860. That country offered to 

 an explorer, and particularly to an ornithologist, magni- 

 ficeut opportunities, of which Saunders was not slow to avail 

 himself, while, not content with these., he occupied his time 

 to a considerable extent with antiquarian researches in the 

 interior. On quitting Peru he crossed the Andes, struck 

 the head-waters of the Amazon, and descended that river to 

 Pani, the journals kept during this notable expedition 



* His first contribution to ' The Ibis ' was on the Albatrosses noticed 

 on this voyage (' Ibis,' 186G, p. 124). 



