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bill [Chionis nth/or) in the Revue Zoologique, and 

 in that journal he published his earlier papers. 

 Nearh' two hundred memoirs or articles in vari- 

 ous scientific journals followed. These, to a 

 large extent, related to the bird- of Africa, but 

 the entire field of descriptive ornithology was 

 covered by him. His principal independent 

 work- were on the birds of West Africa ("Sys- 

 tem der Ornithologie Westafrika's) in ls.sT. one 

 on Polynesian birds i Beitrag zur Fauna Central- 

 polynesiens) in l*n7. and another on birds of 

 Madagascar (Die Vogel Madagaskars und der 

 beiiachbarten Inselgruppen) in 1*77. 



Perhaps the most generally useful of his con- 

 tributions, and the most consulted of all. was a 

 series of annual l'eports on the progress of orni- 

 thology which he contributed for quarter of a 

 century (1846-1871) to the "Archiv fur Naturges- 

 chichte" under the editorship, first, of Erichson 

 and. later, of Troschel. 



The Death of Baron Edmond de Ski.ys 

 1.0NGCHAMPS lias removed another veteran, a 

 life-long contemporary of Hartlaub. He was 

 born nearly six months before the Bremen orni- 

 thologist (May 2.s. 1813) at Paris, and lived 

 three week- longer; hi- death took place Dec. 11, 

 1900, at Liege in Belgium. His full christian 

 name was Michel Edmond, but he only used the 

 latter for his scientific article-; the essential 

 family name way Sulys, anil he was in ordinary 

 converse addressed a- M. Selys. His very ear- 

 liest published writing was for the Dictionnaire 

 Geographique of Liege in 1831, when he was in 

 his eighteenth year, and related to tin- birds and 

 insects of that province. Even his first scien- 

 tific paper generally referred to was contributed 

 two years before Hartlaub's (1839) to the same 

 periodical— Revue Zoologique i. 248-249) and 

 wa- descriptive of supposed new species of Meld 

 mice; his second was on dragon Hies, and tin- 

 third on birds. He thus early manifested his 

 preference for the groups to which he was des- 

 tined to devote his principal attention for over 

 sixty years. The small mammals were the espe- 

 cial subjects of hi- consideration, and he in- 

 vented the term Micromammalogie for the spe- 

 cialty His work was in advance of the time, 

 and iias only lately received the credit due to it. 

 His first scientific article on birds, published in 

 1839, wa- on the classification of the Passerines 

 (Analyse d'une classification des oiseaux Pas- 

 sereaux basec sur le genre de vie et sur les formes 

 de ces oiseaux), and the last of any extent at 

 least, published in 1880, was also on classifica- 

 tion (La classification des oiseaux depuis Limn' 1 . 

 His later publications have had reference almost 

 entirely to the odonate insects (Dragon flies). 



He was a student at the University of Liege 

 and early established hi- residence at Long- 

 champs near Waremme about fifteen miles west- 

 ward. He became prominent in political life, 



having been a communal councillor of Waremme 

 as early as 1841, and subsequently he filled vari- 

 ous positions, finally becoming president of the 

 Belgian senate in 1880, and remaining as such 

 till 1884. 



He was a frequent correspondent of Mr. Gerrit 

 Miller of Washington and Mr. Miller may edit 

 a posthumous article by him. 



The Death m GEORGE A Hoahuman' de- 

 prives the OsprEY of one of its oldest friends 

 ami subscribers. Mr. Boardman was born in 

 Newburyport, Mass., February 5, 1818, and 

 moved, with his family, to Calais, Maine, in 1828. 

 In Calais he remained a resident to the end of 

 his life. He "conducted the largest lumber 

 business on the St. Croix River, until 1871, when 

 he retired from active business." He early im- 

 bibed a taste for ornithology and gradually 

 brought together a very fine collection of well- 

 mounted birds, and his series of those of New 

 England was especially rich. He spent almost 

 if not quite every winter for more than three 

 decades in Florida, and stopped on his way be- 

 tween the north and south in Washington where 

 he called on friends at the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and interchanged views relating- to his fa- 

 vorite study. His published contributions were 

 mostly consigned to the popular periodicals, 

 especially " Forest and Stream''' and the " Times." 

 a newspaper of his home city, but articles also 

 appeared in the Bulletin of the Nutlall Orni- 

 thological Club. A "Catalogue of the Birds 

 found in the vicinity of Calais, Maine, and about 

 the islands of the Bay of Fundv" was pub- 

 lished a- early a- 1862 in the Procedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History (ix, 122-1421. 



Mr. Boardman died at Calais. January 11. 1901. 

 An excellent likeness was published it Forest 

 and Stream for August 5, 189°. and January 26, 

 1901, giving a good idea of his small alert form 

 and pleasing countenance. 



The Death of John Clifford Brown add:-, 

 one more to the many victims of our greed for 

 foreign possessions and the costly glory of being 

 nominal masters of the Philippine archipelago. 

 He volunteered for the Spanish war, and after 

 serving as a captain in one volunteer regiment 

 and lieutenant in another, enlisted in the Engi- 

 neer Corps of the regular army, and was sent to 

 the Philippine Islands. There he was assigned 

 to responsible duty as a civil engineer. At last 

 he had an attack of dysentery for which he was 

 returned to the United States, and died January 

 16, 1891, at Los Ang-eles, California. He was 

 born in Portland, Maine, March 28, 1872. He 

 was a freqftent contributor of notes on Maine 

 birds to The . ////,'. 



