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settled at Lima^ and was made Pfofessor of Languages and 

 Natural History in the National College at Guadelupe near 

 that city. He also became an active contributor on scientific 

 subjects to one of the leading journals of the Peruvian capital. 

 Having transmitted some living animals to the Zoological 

 Society of London^ Nation was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of that Society in 1865, and shortly afterwards com- 

 menced a series of communications on the birds of the vicinitv 

 of Lima, which he sent to Sclater, at that time Secretary 

 to the Society, along with specimens of the species to 

 which they related. These communications were published 

 in the Society's ' Proceedings ' from 1866 to 1885 ^ . His 

 last communication to the Zoological Society was received in 

 1890, when he forwarded a small collection of birds' bones 

 obtained from the Peruvian nitrates. In the spring of last 

 year Prof. Nation, being sadly out of health, determined to 

 return to England, but had a rough voyage, and reached his 

 native land, after 57 years' absence, iu a A'ery feeble state. 

 Sclater visited him in July last, while he was staying with 

 some relatives at Clapham, and found him slightly improved 

 iu health for the time. But this improvement did not last 

 and he died on October the 19th, at his friends' house, at the 

 age of 81 years. His name is commemorated in Science by 

 two Peruvian birds which he discovered and wliich Sclater 

 named after him — Mytobius nationi and Pyrgisoma nationi. 



VII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1. Balston, Shepherd, and Bartlett on Kentish Birds. 



[Notes on the Birds of Kent. By R. J. Balston, C. W. Shepherd, and 

 E. Bartlett. London: R. H. Porter, 1907. Pp. i-xx, 1-465 ; with nine 

 plates and a roap.] 



It is somewdiat difficult to give a correct idea of the 

 contents of this volume, which we hail with pleasure as 

 the first attempt to write a systematic account of the 



* See P.Z. S. 1866, p. 96; 1867, p. .'UO; 1869, p. 146; 1871, p. 490; 

 1881, p. 484 : and 1885, p. 277. 



