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delineation of animal-life were quickly recognised, and before 

 long obtained him ample employment as a draughtsman. 



The first piece of work which brought Wolf's name promi- 

 nently before the scientific world was Riippell's * Syste- 

 matische Uebersicht der Vogel Nord-Ost-Afrika^s/ pub- 

 lished at Frankfort in 1845. The lively and characteristic 

 attitudes in which the fifty plates of birds comprised in this 

 volume are depicted stand out in strong contrast to previous 

 attempts of the same description, and are universally recog- 

 nized as having instituted a completely new style of ornitho- 

 logical drawing. The figures of the birds in Temminck and 

 Schlegel's ' Fauna Japonica ' and those of the Hawks in 

 Schlegel's ' Traite de Fauconnerie ' still further increased 

 WolPs reputation, and the new artist was invited to come to 

 England and complete the drawings for G. R. Gray^s ' Genera 

 of Birds,' which Mitchell was unable to continue owing 

 to his appointment as Secretary of the Zoological Society. 

 Wolf arrived in London in 1848, and prospered so well there 

 that he never left it again, residing first in Rowland Street, 

 Fitzroy Square, and afterwards in Berners Street. In 1874 

 he removed to The Avenue, Fulham Road, but finding this 

 too far from the Zoological Society's Gardens — his favourite 

 place of study — he selected some chambers at Primrose-Hill 

 Studios in 1878, where he passed the rest of his life. It 

 is useless to sing the praises of Wolf's pencil to Members of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union. They are all well aware 

 that a large measure of the success attained by the present 

 Journal in its earlier days must be attributed to Wolf's 

 inimitable illustrations. The first plate in the first number 

 of the First Series of ' The Ibis,' representing Gymnoglaux 

 nudipes, was drawn by Wolf, and for the succeeding ten years 

 his services were constantly given to us. Altogether he 

 contributed upwards of 70 plates to ' The Ibis,' and ceased to 

 render us his much valued assistance only because he gave 

 up drawing on lithographic stone for branches of his pro- 

 fession which involved less attention to minute details not 

 always of an artistic character. The last plate put on the 

 stone by Wolf himself for 'The Ibis' was that of Hypo- 



