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Africa, but without reaching Lake Ngami. In 1852 Galton 

 went home to England, and Andersson resumed his travels, 

 and shortly afterwards reached the lake. With the exception 

 of a short visit to Europe in 1854, he spent the rest of his 

 life in Damaraland and Namaqualand, travelling and col- 

 lecting. Finally, worn out by illness, caused by hardships 

 he had undergone, he died on July 5, 1867, in the wilds of 

 Ovampoland, where his remains were interred in a sand hill 

 by his Swedish friend and follower. Axel Eriksson. 



Although Andersson had spent a great deal of time over 

 the composition of his work on the avifauna of South-west 

 Africa, he never lived to complete it ; but after his death 

 his notes and manuscript, together with the bulk of his 

 collections, passed into the hands of Mr. John Henry Gurney, 

 who published them under the title of ' Notes on the Birds of 

 Damaraland,' in 1872. 



Layard. 



Edgar Leopold Layard (1824-1900) was born at Florence 

 in 1824, and was a younger brother of the famous diplomatist 

 and archseologist, Sir Henry Layard. He entered the Ceylon 

 Civil Service in 1844, and remained in that island until 1855, 

 when, his health giving way, he accepted a post in the Civil 

 Service of Cape Colony under Sir George Grey. He was 

 the first Curator of the South African Museum, which was 

 formed in 1855, chiefly owing to the exertions of the late 

 Mr. Charles Fairbridge and himself. In 1867 he published 

 the first complete account of the birds of South Africa, in 

 which were included " all the species then known occurring 

 south of the 28th parallel of south latitude." This work, 

 though incomplete and faulty in many respects, is, con- 

 sidering the collections of specimens and the books of 

 reference at the disposal of the author, an exceedingly 

 creditable one, and forms the foundation of all the modern 

 work on South African birds. After Mr. Layard had left 

 the Colony, he placed all his manuscript notes in the hands 

 of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, of the British Museum, under whose 



