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scientific library, are deposited in the Museum of Owen's 

 College, Manchester. He had been in bad health for 

 some years and his ornithological activity practically 

 ceased entirely \\ith tlie completion of his egg book in 

 1910. 



He leaves a wife and son and daughter to mourn his 

 loss. The whole ornithological world must feel the poorer 

 and deplore deeply the death of H. E. Dresser, who was 

 always most friendly and ready to assist a very wide 

 circle of ornithological friends, and whose contributions 

 to the science had and always Mill have the most far- 

 reaching effect on its trend and objects. 



Rothschild. 



