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OBITUARY. 



HENRY SEEBOHM. 



Born July 12, 1832. Died November 26, 1895. 



E regret to record the death of Mr. Henry Seebohm, the dis- 

 tinguished ornithologist and traveller, who had never fully 

 recovered from an attack of influenza experienced last spring. 

 Though of Scandinavian descent, his parents belonged to a Quaker 

 family residing at Bradford, Yorkshire, where he was born sixty-three 

 years ago. His sole education was received at the Quakers' School 

 in York, and he early entered business. He eventually amassed a 

 fortune in the steel industry, and retired from active management of 

 business affairs about twenty years ago. From his earliest youth, 

 Seebohm had been devoted to the study of natural history, and when 

 ample leisure and means came he entered the pursuit of ornithology 

 with enthusiasm. He travelled first in the Eastern Mediterranean 

 region, making observations and collections ; next he accompanied 

 Mr. Harvie Brown in 1875 in a journey to the Petchora River; 

 and finally, in 1877, visited the tundras of the Yenissei region, being 

 taken out by Captain Wiggins. The general results of these later 

 travels were embodied in his popular works, " Siberia in Europe " 

 (1880) and "Siberia in Asia" (1882). The scientific results appeared 

 in the Ibis and the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. At the 

 same time, Mr. Seebohm made a detailed study of the thrushes, and 

 prepared vol. v. of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, which 

 deals with that family and was published in 1881. He also published 

 valuable treatises on " British Birds " (4 vols., 1882-85), on " The 

 Geographical Distribution of Plovers, Sandpipers, and Snipes " 

 (1888), and quite recently on " The Birds of the Japanese Empire." 

 His latest efforts were devoted to the classification of birds. Mr. 

 Seebohm was for many years a generous donor to the British 

 Museum, where the whole of his valuable collection is now safely 

 housed. His great donation of birds' eggs forms one of the most 

 conspicuous features of the study series. His genial presence will 

 also be sadly missed by the Royal Geographical Society, of which 

 he was an honorary secretary at the time of his death. 



GEORGE EDWARD DOBSON. 

 Born September 4, 1844. Died November 26, 1895. 



AFTER a long illness, Surgeon-Major G. E. Dobson died on 

 November 26 last. An Irishman by birth, he graduated in the 



