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tins good canse to send tlie amount of tlieir contribution 

 to him. We hope tliere will be a good response from 

 members of the Union. 



\ye also learn with regret of the death of Mr. E. P. 

 Ramsay, for many years Curator of the Australian Museum 

 at Sydney. We hope in tlie October number to give a sliort 

 biographical notice. 



From ' Nature ' we hear of the death from wounds 

 received in action in France of 2nd Lieut. 11. E. O. Dixox, 

 Seafoith Highlanders — a promising bird-artist, whose work 

 was largely modelled on that of Archibald Thorburn. 



The ' Ornithologische Monatsbei'iclite^ of last year reports 

 the death at the age of* sixty-two of Adolph Nehkkorn, 

 which took place at Brunswick on 8 April, 1916. Born at 

 Kiddagshaus-en near Brunswick in 1844, he was an original 

 member of the German Ornithological Society. He was 

 celebrated for his great collection of birds' eggs, both 

 European and Exotic, and the first edition of his well- 

 known catalogue was published in 1899 (see 'Ibis/ 1899, 

 p. 462). In 1905 the collection was presented to the 

 Berlin Museum, and five years later a second edition of 

 the catalogue was issued ('Ibis,' 1910, p. 752). In it are 

 enumerated the names of 5440 species, the eggs of which 

 are represented in the collection. 



The 'Ornithologische Monatsbcrichte' also announces the 

 death of Otto le lloi, Lieutenant of the Eeserve, killed in 

 action in the Carpathians in October 1916. Otto le Roi 

 was the author of the "Vogelfauna der Rheiu Provinz," 

 and was associated with Dr. A. Koenig of Bonn in his 

 work ' Avifauna Spitzbergensis.' 



