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years chairman o£ the Hucklersfield Conservative Association. 

 He was elected a member of the Union in 1898^ but his 

 interest in ornithology was purely that of an araatenr. 

 He was a keen observer of bird-life^ and had made in his 

 younger days a very fine collection of British Birds^ eggs. 

 He was also a collector of books on all subjects relating to 

 ornithology and natural history. 



George Wyman Bury. 



The ornithological exploration of south-western Arabia 

 must always be associated with the name of Lieut. G. Wyman 

 Bury, R.N.V.li., whose recent death at Helouan, near Cairo, 

 at the age of 46, we regret to learn from the pages of the 

 ' Times.' 



Bury was born at Mancetter Manor House in Warwick- 

 shire, and was educated at Atherstone Grammar School and 

 at Army crammers. In 1894 he received a commission in the 

 3id Batt. R. Warwick Regt. ; in the following year he was 

 in southern Morocco with the rebel tribes. During the next 

 six or seven years he was in the Aden hinterland and other 

 parts of southern Arabia, making archaeological and zoological 

 investigations and acquiring a wonderful knowledge of the 

 Arab tribes. He was political officer at Aden in 1903-4. 

 On the outbreak of the war he joined the Intelligence Staff 

 on the Egyptian front, and later on was attached to the 

 Red Sea Patrol. 



His first ornithological collections were made in 1899 -1900, 

 when he was attached to the expedition under the leadershij) 

 of Messrs. W. Dodson and A. B. Percivalfor the exploration 

 of the hinterland of Aden, the results of which were worked 

 out by Mr. Ogil vie- Grant and published in ' Novitates Zoo- 

 logicse^ (vol. vii. 1900, pp. 243-266). Further collections of 

 birds were made l)y him in the following year when attached 

 to an Austrian expedition which visited south-eastern Arabia 

 for archa3ological investigation. Tlie account of the birds 

 then collected was published in the ' Journ. filr Ornithologie ' 

 of 1901 by Messrs. L. von Lorentz and C. E. Hellmayr. 



