320 Zoology. 



Gould, who mentions his prowess on more than one occasion in his 

 " Birds of Great Britain." 



lie was my guide, pliilosopher, and friend in my early days, and 

 monnted all my birds for me. We were planning excursions to different 

 parts of the coast, when lie died suddenly of heart disease : he lies 

 buried in Cookham churchyard. When I was appointed to the Museum, 

 one of my first acts was to i>reRent my entire collection of Britisli birds 

 in the name of my old friend, so that he should be connected with the 

 national museum of his native country, of which he was certainly one 

 of the best field oruitliologists. Among this collection, mounted by Biiggs, 

 are all the birds j>rocured by me as a boy, the first specimen ever shot hy 

 me being a Wryneck. It would be dillicult, under the present altered 

 conditions of the Thames, to find now tlie birds which were to be met 

 with in the days of Briggs and myself forty years ago. 



British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



GG birds from bokotra, collected by Prof, I. Bayley Balfour {q.v.') 

 Presented. [81. 3. 21, l-GG.] 



103 birds from the Tcuimber Islands, collected by Dr. H. 0. Forbes. 

 Presented. [83. 5. 30, 1-103.] 



75 birds from Kilimanjaro, collected by Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., 

 G.C.M.G. Presented. [85. (1. 14, 1-75.] 



35 birds from the Camaroons, collected by Sir Ilarry Johnston, 

 K.C.H., G.C.M.G. Presented. [87. 3. 7, 1-35.] 



The British Association, in conjimction with the Iloyal Society and 

 the Iloyal Geographical Society, has often contributed funds for the 

 support of exploration. All the expeditions mentioned above were of 

 the greatest service to zoological science. 



Among Professor Balfour's discoveries in Sokotra was the wonderful 

 new genus of Finches (JiJn/nrhoati-uthns sorotraniis), and many other 

 novelties described by Dr. llartlaub and Dr. Sclater (P.Z.S., 1881, pp. 

 953-!t, ))1. Ixvii.). 



Dr. Forbes' expedition to the Teniraber Islands, full of difliculty and 

 danger, shared in the most heroic manner by his wife, resulted in the 

 discovery of 2(! species new to the Museum, of which 21 were also new 

 to science. {Of. Sclater, P.Z.S., 1883, i)p. 48-58, pis. xi.-xiv. ; Forbes, 

 *' Naturalist's Wanderings in the Malay Archipelago."] 



Sir Ilarry Johnston's exploration of Moimt Kilimanjaro resulted in 

 the acquisition of eleven sjiecies new to the Museum, of which six were 

 previously unknown (il/^.sc/crt^w yo/t«,s<o»t, I'ratiiicola axillaris, Cinnyris 

 'incdivrritt, Nectarinia jolmsloni, N. /ciliiiiansis, and Finarocliroa hypos- 

 jwdia). [Of. Shelley, P.Z.S., 1884, pp. 554-8, pi. li. ; 1885, pp. 222-30, 

 pis. xiii. and xiv.] 



The exploration of the Camaroons mountains in West Africa by the 

 same naturalist resulted in the discovery of four new si»ecies cf birds 

 (FoHojiicus jolmsloni, Laniarius atroflavns, I'salipoproctie ftili(/iiios(i, 

 l^iuccus 7nelanogaster). [Cy. Shelley, P.Z.S., 1887, pp. 122-G, pis. xiii. 

 and xiv.] 



Broadbent (Kendal). 

 iSce (Jeuuaui), E. 



A well-known Australian collector, who has also visited New Guinea. 

 lOf. Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xiii., pp. 486-505.] 



He was the discoverer of IS2)!u'nura hroudhoiti, one of the most 

 interesting of recent discoveries in Australia. Of this the Museum has 

 only recently acquired a specimen presented by Mr. Robert Hall. 



