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his continental expeditious, the results of which are incor- 

 porated in papers to ' The Ibis ' on the birds of the Pyrenees 

 in 1883-4 and those of Switzerland in 1891, while in 1893 

 these were followed by an account of " The Distribution of 

 Birds in France/' 



Saunders was an active Member of the Zoological, Linnean, 

 and Royal Geographical Societies, and was in much request 

 as a Member of Committees and Councils; he was a Vice- 

 President of the first-named and in close touch with the 

 Gardens at Regent's Park, where he took a strong interest 

 in the animals and their management. He was elected 

 a Member of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1870, 

 and in 1901 entered upon the office of Secretary, a post 

 which he held till his death. He was also the first Secretary 

 and Treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Club, when that 

 offshoot from the parent stem was founded in 18J2. The 

 fifth and seventh series of 'The Ibis' were issued under his 

 editorship, conjointly with Sclater ; while from 1877 to 

 1881 he acted as the Recorder of " Aves " for the ' Zoological 

 Record/ and from 1880 to 1885 as Secretary of Section D 

 (Zoology) at the meetings of the British Association. In 

 1884 he edited Vieillot's ' Analyse ' for the Willughby 

 Society, and during his whole career in England he was a 

 regular reviewer of books on Natural History, Sport, and 

 Travel, especially for the ' Athenseum.' A paper on the eggs 

 obtained by the Transit of Venus expedition of 1874-5 

 appeared in the ' Philosophical Transactions' for 1879, and 

 the portion of the 'Antarctic Manual ' referring to the Birds 

 came from his pen in 1901. He was actively concerned in 

 the Bird-Department of the Fisheries Exhibition in London 

 in 1883, while he always kept in close touch with the 

 Naturalists of the United States, where he was an Honorary 

 Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



Saunders had a world-wide reputation as an authority on 

 the family Laridce (Gulls and Terns), and published im- 

 portant papers on it in the 'Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London ' for 1876-8, and the ' Journal of the 

 Linnean Society (Zoology) ' for 1878, hence he was naturally 



