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Society, and during liis whole career in England he was a 

 regular reviewer of books on Natural History, Sport, and 

 Travel, especially for the "^ Athenaeum.' A paper on the eggs 

 obtained by the Transit of Venus expedition of 1874-5 

 appeared in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for 1879, and 

 the portion of the 'Antarctic Manual^ referring to the Birds 

 came from his pen in 1901, He Avas actively concerned in 

 the Bird-Department of the Fisheries Exhibition in London 

 in 1883, while he always kept in close touch with the 

 naturalists of the United States, where he was an Honorary 

 Member of the American Ornithologists^ Union. 



Saunders had a w^orld-wide reputation as an authority on 

 the family Larida (Gulls and Terns), and published im- 

 portant papers on it in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological 

 Society of London for 1876-8, and the ' Journal of the 

 Linnean Society (Zoology) M'or 1878; hence he was natu- 

 rally selected to write the portion of the twenty-fifth volume 

 of the ' Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum ' 

 Avhich deals with this group. But to the public in general 

 he will always be best known as the Editor, in 1884-5, of 

 the last two volumes of the fourth edition of YarrelFs 

 ' British Birds,' commenced by Professor Newton, and as 

 the author of that most excellent Avork 'An illustrated 

 Manual of British Birds,' issued in 1889, wherein was 

 included not only the whole essence of ' Yarrell/ but a large 

 amount of fresh information, though two pages only were 

 dcA'oted to each species. The value of this volume to Palse- 

 arctic ornithologists was speedily made evident ])y the call 

 for a second edition in 1899^ after Avhich date, Avhile still 

 writing for ' The Ibis,' Saunders continued to keep up a 

 constant correspondence with those Avho recorded additions 

 to the British List, as published by himself in 1887, and 

 the last article from his pen was one dealing Avith this 

 subject in the new periodical entitled 'British Birds. "* 



The death of our Secretary Avas acutely felt by his fellow- 

 workers, to whom he Avas always accessible and whose 

 writings he was inA^ariably Avilling to revise ; in fact the 

 correction of the proofs of others consumed a large portion 



