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ill the 'Catalogue of Birds in tlie Britisli Museum' 

 (vols, xvi. and xxv.). Almost his last piece of work was 

 the completion of the late Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures 

 of British Birds/ Salvin was a Fellow of the Royal, the 

 Linnean, the Zjological, and the Entomological Societies, 

 and served on their Councils, while his services for many- 

 years to the B.O.U., as Editor and afterwards as Treasurer, 

 are known to all of us. With a character of remarkable 

 straightforwardness and common sense he combined an 

 excellent judgment ; while he was personally much beloved, 

 so that his loss has been deeply and sincerely felt, as well on 

 account of his qualities as by reason of difficulties experienced 

 in arranging for the continuation of the many duties which 

 lie performed up to the moment of his departure from us. 



Alfred Hart Everett was born in 1848, on Norfolk 

 Island, where his father held the post of medical officer to 

 the Convict Establishment ; but about 1853 his family 

 settled in Jersey, and subsequently near Southanipton. 

 From very early years Everett showed a strong taste for 

 natural history, and when, on the occasion of a visit to 

 Norwich, at the age of thirteen, an old gentleman took him 

 on a fossil-hunting expedition it seemed, to use his own 

 words, that a new world had opened to him. His education 

 was chiefly at Norwich Grammar School, under the Rev. 

 (now Canon) Jessopp. Here he distinguished himself, but 

 a severe illness put a stop to his reading for the University. 

 His idea of becoming an explorer now took definite shape, 

 and, having been dissuaded from visiting the Amazon valley, 

 he made the acquaintance of the Rajah of Sarawak (Brooke), 

 who was at the time in England, and he entered the Govern- 

 ment service. Of his excellent work as a collector the 

 following list of his contributions will convey some idea : — 



A List of the Birds of the Boruean Group of Islands. Jourii. Straits 

 Branch R. Asiatic Soc. Singapore, No. 20, 1889, p. 91. 



Remarks on the Zoo-geographical Relationships of the Island of Pahi-vvaii 

 and some adjacent Islands. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 220. 



Description of an apparently new Species of the Genus Siphia from 



Borneo. Ibis, 1891, p. 45. 



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