1917-] Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 463 



Selous Memorial Committee. 



With this Numher is enclosed a Circular from the Com- 

 mittee formed to establish a National Memorial to the 

 late Captain Selous, D.S.O., explaining the form which it 

 is proposed the memorial will take and asking for sub- 

 scriptions. 



All Members of the Union who wish to contribute to so 

 worthy an object are asked to send their subscriptions to 

 C. E. Fagan, Esq., Honorary Treasurer, Natural History 

 Museum, Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 7. 



The Berlepsch Collection of Birds. 



We learn from a notice in the ' Ornithologische Monats- 

 berichte ' of last year (p. 64) that this extremely valuable 

 collection, chiefly of Neotropical birds, brought together 

 by the late Hans Graf von Berlepsch, containing many 

 types and varieties and including a wonderful series of 

 l^'ochilidae mounted and in skin, has been acquired by the 

 Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort a. M. It contains over 

 55,000 skins and 300 of the Berlepsch types. 



The Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. 



Messrs. Witherby & Co. have been appointed European 

 Agents for this publication. The work is illustrated by 

 plates and figures, and deals with all branches of the 

 Natural History of that country. 



List of M.B.O.U. serving with H.M. Forces. 



The name of Mr. Thomas Carter, Pte. 9th Batt. Surrey 

 Volunteer Begt,, must be added to those already published. 



