19 i Obituary. 



rarities procured in Norfolk, was written by Southwell, and 

 forms not only an instructive introduction to the series, but 

 also a useful collection of records. 



If there was one subject more than another in which 

 Southwell took special interest, it was the protection of birds 

 in the close time, and particularly the preservation of such 

 species as had their breeding haunts in Norfolk, which, by 

 reason of continued persecution and in consequence of the 

 reclamation of the waste lands to which they resorted, were 

 being brought to the verge of extinction as breeding birds. 

 On this subject he wrote much, and effectively, while the 

 formation of local societies for the protection of birds in 

 restricted areas, as, for example, at Breydon and at Wells, 

 always elicited his encouragement and support. For many 

 years he was a constant writer in the ' Zoologist,' and an 

 occasional contributor to the Natural History columns of 

 the ' Field/ where his letters and articles, always of an 

 informing character, never failed to meet with the apprecia- 

 tion which they deserved. A long list might be given of his 

 papers in the ' Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists.' Society,' many of which were of an archaeo- 

 logical character and full of curious information. Active- 

 minded almost to the last, he was pn strated by a stroke of 

 paralysis on August Uth, and lingered until September 5th, 

 when he passed peacefully away. His wife having pre- 

 deceased him in July, 190.'}, he leaves two daughters to 

 mourn his loss. — J.E. 11. 



With much regret we have also to record the decease of 

 tv\o other distinguished Members of this Union — Dr. H. H. 

 Ciiglioli, of Florence (on Dec. 14th), and Dr. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, of the British Museum (on Dec. 25tlr). We pro- 

 pose to give some account of the Lives and Labours of 

 these great ornithologists in our April number. 



