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recently at Simferopol in the Crimea^ where lie was acting as 

 a professor in the so-called " White University.''^ What has 

 liappened to him since the invasion and occupation of the 

 Crimea by the Bolshevist forces we have not heard. AVe 

 have no news of Gregory Poliakov or Sergins Alpheraki. 

 Baron Loudon, a well-known ornithologist though not on 

 our list of members, was robbed and plundered of his 

 possessions and driven out of Livonia by the Bolshevists, 

 and is now living in Berlin. 



The Editor or Secretary of the Union would be very glad 

 of any further information in regard to the fate of our 

 unfortunate Fellow-Ibises in Russia. 



Personalia. 



Mr. A. F. R. WoLLASTON, M.A., B.Ch., D.S.O., M.B.O.U., 



has recently been elected to a Fellowship of King^s College, 

 Cambridge. Mr. Wollaston is well known to us for his 

 explorations, both geographical and ornithological, of 

 Ruwenzori and Dutch New Guinea, and is now organizing 

 another expedition to the latter. He has recently completed 

 a life of the late Professor Alfred Newton. 



Mr. N. B. KiNNEAR, M.B.O.U., has recently been ap- 

 pointed a First Class Assistant in the Natural History 

 Museum, and is working in the bird-room under Dr. P. 

 R. Lowe. 



Capt. Hubert Lynes, C.B., C.M.G., R.N., who spent 

 some months last winter in Dafur, has recently returned 

 there accompanied by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe. He pro- 

 poses to spend at least eighteen months in the Sudan 

 collecting birds and making observations. He will also 

 devote some of his time to other branches of Natural 

 History. 



Mr. Georgk L. Bates of Cameroon fame, who has been 

 in England for some months during the past season, has 

 returned to Bitye in southern Cameroon, and hopes to make 

 further explorations in Nigeria as well as in Cameroon. 



