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famous engraver Thomas Bewick was made accessible at 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne in August last year. The collection 

 was left to that city by the will of the late Sir J. W. Pease. 

 The city had already a good series of Bewick's works in the 

 Hancock Museum, consisting chiefly of drawings and portraits. 

 But Sir J. W. Pease had gathered together copies of all the 

 books illustrated by Bewick, with some of his best drawings 

 and many engraved blocks and personal relics. These have 

 now all been arranged in connexion with the former collection. 



Meeting of the International Ornithological Congress. — The 

 Fourth International Ornithological Congress, under the 

 Presidency of Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, will meet in London on 

 the 12th of June this year, and an Organizing Committee 

 has been formed to make the necessary preparations. The 

 Secretaries to the Committee are Dr. Ernst Hartert, of Tring, 

 and Mr. J. L. Bonhote, of Ditton Hall, Cambridgeshire. The 

 Treasurer is Mr. C. E. Pagan, of the Natural History Museum, 

 Cromwell Road, London. It is arranged, that the Congress 

 should sit from Monday, June 12th, to Saturday, June 17th, 

 during which period it is proposed that evening receptions 

 and short excursions shall take place. Longer excursions 

 will be made after the Congress is over for those who are able 

 to remain for them. The Meetings will be held in the 

 Imperial Institute, South Kensington. A General Committee 

 is being formed, consisting of Ornithologists from all parts of 

 the world. All members of the B. O. U. will receive invita- 

 tions to attend the Congress. Further particulars will be 

 given in our next number. 



XII. — Obituary. 



Carlo, Freiherr von Erlanger; Comte Amkdee Alleon ; 

 Captain F. H. Salvin; and Mr. Edward Neale. 



Ornithology has sustained a severe loss by the death of 

 Freiherr Carlo von Erl anger, who lost his life in a motor- 



