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made many valuable contributions to our knowledge of the 

 mammals, birds, fishes, and annulata of the Arctic Seas and 

 their islands. To ornithologists he is best known from his 

 explorations in Spitsbergen, to which he paid three visits. 

 The results of these expeditions as regards birds were pub- 

 lished in the 'Transactions ' of the Royal Swedish Academy 

 of Sciences for 1863, and subsequently in the ' Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie ' for the same year. A letter from the deceased 

 naturalist in reference to some European birds met with at 

 the Cape will be found in 'The Ibis ' for 1869, p. 229. 



Jose d'Anchieta. — One of the most energetic and ex- 

 perienced collectors of modern days has disappeared in the 

 person of Jose d'Anchieta, who for many years has supplied 

 the Museum of Lisbon with specimens of natural history 

 from the Portuguese West- African provinces of Mossamedes, 

 Benguela, and Loanda. As we learn from Prof. Bocage's 

 memoir (Jorn. Sc. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisb. vol. xviii.), 

 Anchieta died at Caconda in Benguela on the 14th of Sept., 

 1897. More than 4000 bird-skins have been sent to the 

 Lisbon Museum by this hard-working collector, and have 

 formed the subjects of numerous memoirs by Prof. Bocage 

 and Senhor J. A. de Sousa, which have been quoted in this 

 Journal. They have been referred to 560 species, among 

 which 46 have been described as new. At least five of 

 these species — Bocagia anchietce (Bocage), Cheelura anchietre 

 de Sousa, Nectarinia anchietce Bocage, Scoptelus anchietce 

 Bocage, and Slactolcema anchietee (Bocage) — serve to com- 

 memorate the name of this much-deserving naturalist. 



OsBERT Salvin, F.R.S. — With much grief we also have to 

 announce the loss of our friend and fellow-worker, Mr, Osbert 

 Salvin, F.R.S. , one of the original members of this Union, 

 and, at the time of his death, its Secretary. Mr. Salvin died 

 at his residence, Hawksfold, in Sussex, on the 1st June. 

 We hope to be able to give some account of his life and 

 work in our next number. 



