164 Uli'ilaarij JSoilcc'. 



lie described avpII over tour hundred new t^pecies of birds, 

 whilst more than twenty are named after him ; Reichenow 

 (his son-in-law), Gadow^, Hartert, LeverkiUm, and many other 

 famous ornithologists were his pupils ; he himself served 

 under Lichtenstein. He puhlished and edited many ornitho- 

 logical works — on the Birds of Peru in conjunction with 

 Dr. Tschudi in 1845-G ; on the classification of the Passeres 

 in ltS47 ; on the Birds of British Guiana in 1848 ; on the 

 description of the ornithological collection of Herr F. Heine, 

 of Halberstadt, he spent thirteen years (1850-(J3), the matter 

 being published in a production entitled ' Museum 

 Heineanum ' ; he described Gundlach's collections from 

 Cuba ; Hoffman and v. Frantzius's collections from Costa 

 Rica ; and in 18()0 Baron von der Decken's collections from 

 East Africa. In our own South Afi'iean nomenclature his 

 name is jierpetuated by such s})ecies as IJ///)huntor)us cabanisi 

 (Cabanis's Weavei- Bird) and Tardus cabanisi (Cabanis's 

 Thrsuh). 



( Jabanis was born in Berlin and there educated : he 

 travelled for some time in North America ; at the age of 

 twenty-six he was attached as an assistant to the Museum of 

 the Berlin University ; he i-etired in 1802. He w'as elected 

 an Honorary Member of the British Ornithologists' Union 

 in 18(;;0. He died at Friedrichshagen on Feb. 28th, 1906. 



It is from such men as Cabanis, who enjoy a permanent 

 and secured public position, and who are thus able without 

 fear of the present or future to devote unreservedly their 

 whole thoughts and work to the study of one particular 

 lt)ranch of science during the whole of their life, that know- 

 ledge of profound and valuable character may be expected to 

 be forthcoming. That continuity of purpose and systematic 

 .investigation which is rendered y)(>ssil)le under conditions such 

 as these is in itself sufficient to justify its trial in a country 

 such as our own. 



Canon Hknry Baker Tristram, who died at Durham on 

 March -"^th. 1'.H)(i,at the age of 84, was a distinguished Divine, 

 Authoi', and Naturalist. He travelled extensively in Algeria 



