356 Obituary. 



year appeared his ' Wonders of the Bird World/ containing 

 the gist of the popular lectures given by him in different 

 parts of the country, which, illustrated by lantern-slides 

 designed by Keulemans, never failed to delight large 

 audiences. 



Nor should we omit to notice here his edition of White's 

 ' Selborne/ which appeared in two volumes in 1900. His 

 knowledge of the locality, where at one time he had a 

 residence, and the ornithological observations which he made 

 there, enabled him to supply many editorial notes of interest. 

 For his sake, it is to be regretted that this work is disfigured 

 by a number of full-page plates which are anything but 

 artistic, and in many cases are grotesque. For this ill- 

 fortune, however, he was not responsible. 



To give here a list of the numerous papers contributed 

 by Sharpe to scientific periodicals would be impossible in 

 the space at my disposal. Suffice it to say that in the pages 

 of the ' Ibis,' the ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' the 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ the ' Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History/ and even in foreign publica- 

 tions, such as the 'Bulletin' of the Zoological Society of 

 France, and the ' Mittheilungen ' of the Royal Zoological 

 Museum of Dresden, as well as in the ' Notes from the 

 Leyden Museum/ will be found an extraordinary number of 

 contributions from his pen, many of which are of con- 

 siderable scientific importance. 



Reference to ' The Ibis ' recalls the fact that Sharpe 

 was elected a member of the British Ornithologists' Union 

 in 1871, from which date to the time of his death he 

 was one of the most active and energetic supporters of its 

 objects, as well as one of the most frequent contributors to 

 ' The Ibis/ The British Ornithologists' Club, to which 

 only members of the Union are eligible, may be said to 

 have been founded by Sharpe, for it was at his instigation 

 and encouragement that they perceived the advantages that 

 would arise from evening meetings, held once a month, for 

 the discussion of subjects of general interest in the bird- 

 world, and the exhibition of rare or little-known specimens 



