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birds to such an extent that in 1879 he joined Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown in a scheme for obtaining reports on the subject from 

 the keepers of lighthouses and Hghtships on the coasts of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. At the Meeting of the British 

 Association at Swansea in 1880 he was appointed Secretary 

 of a Committee (with a small grant) to carry out this plan, 

 and for nine years he gave gratuitously an enormous amount 

 of labour — not unattended by expense — to this undertaking. 

 Its remarkable success has been shown in the ' Digest of 

 the Observations ' made by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, pre- 

 sented to the British Association at Liverpool in 1896, and 

 its influence upon the study of migration can hardly be 

 overrated. 



In addition to ornithology, Cordeaux possessed a consider- 

 able knowledge of other branches of zoology as well as of 

 botany, while a strong appreciation of the poetry of nature lent 

 a grace to his writings. He was a good sportsman and a fine 

 specimen of the country gentleman, as well as a most genial 

 companion ; and by his death, not only science, but also those 

 who were privileged to know him as a friend, have sustained 

 a very serious loss. 



Mr. Frank B. Simson, who died on the 28th of last May, 

 was elected a Member of the B. O. U. in 1881. He was 

 one of the old school of sportsmen-naturalists, a friend of 

 Jerdon and of Blyth, and he shared their labours ; but he 

 wrote little in his own name. It might have been expected 

 that he would have contributed to ' Stray Feathers,^ but his 

 name does not appear in any index, and the only paper we 

 can find in ^The Ibis' is on the Pink-headed Duck {Anas 

 caryophyllacea) in 1884, pp. 271-275. In 1886 he produced 

 a work entitled ' Notes on Sport in Eastern Bengal.' 



We have also heard, with regret, of the death of Mr. 

 Edward Mitford H. Riddell, of 9 Minster Yard, Lincoln. 

 He was elected a Member of the B. O. U. in 1898. 



