OBITUARIES. 
JOHN CORDEAUX 
Born, 1831; Diep, Aueust 1, 1899 
JoHN CorDEAUX was the eldest son of the Rev. John Cordeaux, formerly rector 
of Hooton-Roberts, Yorkshire. He was born at Foston Rectory, in Leicester- 
shire. The ordinary occupations of a country life gave him opportunities for 
the especial study of bird life, with which his name has been so long associated. 
Among his earliest publications was one on the birds of the Humber district, 
which has remained the standard for that district. Ever keen on the migratory 
habits of birds, he strove hard to interest the coast-guard and lighthouse-keepers 
to keep continuous records at their various stations, and succeeded in obtaining 
a great variety of useful and interesting data, both on the migratory habits of 
our own birds and the occasional visits of strangers. Nor did he neglect other 
interests, for he was an enthusiastic botanist, archzeologist, and student of folk- 
lore. Cordeaux was first president of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. We 
are indebted to the Z%mes for the facts in the above notice. 
The following deaths are announced :—The entomologist PEREZ ARcas in 
Madrid ; Dr. DanteL Garrison Brinton, the American ethnologist, at Atlantic 
City, New Jersey, on July 31, at the age of 62 years; the botanist Eucine 
GonoD D’ARTEMARE, at Ussel (Corriége), on June 16; the psychologist 
FREIHERR Kari DU PREL, who made a number of contributions to evolution- 
literature, at Heiligkreuz in the Tyrol, on August 5, at the age of 60; Dr. 
PasQuaLE FReDA, director of the agricultural experiment station at Rome, on 
July 4; Mr. N. R. Harrineton, member of the Senff Zoological Expedition, 
instructor in Western Reserve University, at Atbara, July 27; CHARLES 
Hows1z, of St. Andrews, who published a list of the mosses of Fifeand Kinross ; 
Sr. Tu. Jaxtrt, professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at 
Belgrad, on May 4; the French geologist ADoLpHE LEGEAL, murdered in the 
Soudan ; Dr. JosepH Mrks, anatomist and anthropologist, on June 9, in Kéln ; 
A. DE Marpalx, professor of zootechnic at the Catholic university of Louvain, 
at Meerhout, near Antwerp, on August 5, in his 74th year; Ropertr H. 
ScHMITT, geographer in German East Africa, on May 10, in Mangali, at the 
age of 29; the mycologist Jonann N. Scunast, in Miinchen, on June 16, at 
the age of 45; Henri Liviqur pe VILMoRIN, a notable cultivator of plants, 
first vice-president of the Paris Société d’Horticulture. 
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