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succeeded Verreaux in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. After 

 the demise of Alphonse Mihie-Edwards he became Professor 

 of Mammalia and Aves, which post he hehl till his death. In 

 1880-1 his masterly work on the Hemipode family appeared. 

 His name, however, remains indelibly stamped upon the 

 memory of ornithologists through his great knowledge of 

 the birds of China, and in 1887 he published, in conjunction 

 with Armand David, his ' Birds of China ' (' Les Oiseaux de 

 la Chine'). 



He was President of the 3rd Ornithological C-ongress 

 which was held in Paris in 1900. Many birds bear his 

 name and afford striking testimony to the esteem and regard 

 in which his fellow ornithologists held him. Several species 

 were named by him. He was a C.M.Z.S. and an Honorary 

 Member of both the British and American Ornithologists' 

 Unions. 



Sir Walter Lawry Buller. — Sir Walter Buller was 

 best known as the official authority upon the Birds of his 

 native country. New Zealand, upon which subject he produced 

 several very valuable works. Of these the most important 

 was ' A History of the Birds of New^ Zealand,' the first 

 edition of which appeared in 1873, the second in 1887-88, 

 and a Supplement so recently as 1905-6. 



Sir Walter was of service to his Colony in many w-ays: 

 he was a Native Commissioner and Resident Magistrate 

 from 1862-1872: served in the Maori War of 1865; and 

 represented New Zealand at the Colonial Exhibition of 1886, 

 and the Paris Exhibition of 1889, besides being on the 

 governing body of the Imperial Institute. He was called to 

 the English Bar in 1874; was a Doctor of Science of 

 Cambridge; a Fellow of the Royal Society (1879); and 

 received his K.C.M.G. in 1886. He was the possessor of 

 many foreign orders. He was born in New Zealand and 

 died in Hampshire, England, on July 19th, 1906, at the 

 age of 68. 



( '. B. Simpson, M.A., B.Sc.Govt. Entomologist of the Trans- 

 vaal. — 31r. Simpson was 1;)orn in California in 1876. Prom 



