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triorchis eleanorce in the volume for 1869. Soon after this 

 date also Wolf declined to draw on stone any more for the 

 Zoological Society, but continued to prepare sketches for the 

 * Proceedings ' and ' Transactions/ which were lithographed 

 by Smit under Wolfs eye. For some account of the enormous 

 amount of other first-rate work executed by Wolf every year 

 of his life in London, until increasing age and infirmities 

 slacker! his masterly hand, we must refer our readers to 

 'The Life of Joseph Wolf^ by A. H. Palmer, published in 

 1895, and illustrated by copies of many of his beautiful 

 lithographs. We may, however, in conclusion, remind our 

 readers that, besides scientific works, numerous volumes on 

 sport and travel have been entirely or mainly illustrated by 

 this industrious artist. Of these we may name Andersson^s 

 ' Lake Ngami,^ Livingstone's 'Missionary Travels,' Atkinson's 

 ' Amoorland/ Emerson Tennent's ' Ceylon,' Baldwin's 

 ' African Hunting,' Bates's ' Naturalist on the Amazons,' and 

 Wallace's ' Malay Archipelago/ while his splendid pictures 

 of animal-life in oil, M'ater-colour, and crayon are scattered 

 Avidely over England among the mansions of those who were 

 sagacious enough to appreciate the talents of this unrivalled 

 delineator of birds and mammals. 



In private life Wolf was a quiet, unassuming man, of 

 generous and unselfish disposition, and always ready to help 

 his younger brethren in the profession. He was much loved 

 by a select circle of friends, with whom he had sympathetic 

 tastes in art and science. Perhaps the most curious feature 

 of Wolf's career was that he was never elected a member of 

 the Royal Academy. But this fact, in our opinion, must 

 be attributed rather to the want of discrimination of that 

 illustrious body than to the discredit of Joseph Wolf. 



Henry Bendelack Hewetson, who was elected a Member 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1897, and was much 

 attached to the study of birds, died at his residence in 

 Leeds on the 15th of May last at the early age of 42 years. 

 Mr. Hewetson was well known as an eminent oculist, and 

 had achieved great success by his skill in the treatment of 



