1917-] Obituary. 615 



Captain Sir Augustus Webster, Bart., also of the Grenadier 

 Guards (Reserve), of Battle Abbey, Sussex, and was heir to 

 the Baronetcy and Battle Abbey M'ith its large estate. A 

 born naturalist, at Eton he was placed in charge of the school 

 Natural History Collections, and early in last year the writer 

 of this notice spent a day with him at Eton and saw the really 

 good work put in by him in arranging and classifying the 

 specimens in the Museum, and also in restoring some of 

 them, for he was a really expert hand in taxidermy. 



A year or two ago, in a competition amongst the Public 

 Schools on some subject connected with Natural History, 

 a silver medal was awarded to Godfrey Webster for his 

 excellent essay on the " Flight of Birds," gaining at the 

 same time unstinted praise f loni the examiners. After the 

 competition he sent me his MS. to read, and I was much 

 struck by the unusual excellence of the paper. 



As modest as he was clever, his name — in conjunction with 

 other members of our Union who have also given their lives 

 for King and Country — will be respected and revered for all 

 time, and his death, coming so soon after the tragic death 

 of Lady Webster in June last, will, I am sure, cause the 

 sympathy of our Members to go out to his father — 

 Sir Augustus Webster, and to his two sisters, in this their 

 hour of deep sorrow. Godfrey W^ebster had only this year 

 been elected a member of the Britisii Ornithologists' Union. 



T. P. 



Edward Pearson Ramsay. 



As was briefly announced in the July ' Ibis,' Dr. E. P. 

 Ramsay, the well-known Australian ornithologist, died at 

 his residence near Sydney on 16 December, 1916, aged 

 74 years. 



The third son of his father, David Ramsay, M.D., an early 

 Australian settler, Ramsay was born at Dobroyde House 

 near Sydney in 1842. He was educated at St. Mark's 

 School, Macquarie Fields, and afterwards at Darling Point 

 under the Rev. G. S. Macarthur. Later on he entered the 

 Sydney University. For some time Ramsay was engaged 



