340 Zoology. 



Dresser (H. E.), 



4 birds from Europe and Asia Minor. Presented. [72. 12. 16, 1-4.} 



A Pelican (Fehcanus onocrotalus) from Dalmatia. Presented 

 [73. 12. 26. 12.] 



46 eggs from Central Asia. In exchange for duplicates from the Museum 

 Collection. [1902. 4. 25, 1-46.] 



At the time that I entered the service of the Trustees, Mr. Dresser 

 was engaged with me in writing the " Birds of Europe." Being unable 

 to continue this work and at the same time write the " Catalogue of 

 Birds," I preferred the latter work, and surrendered the "Birds of 

 Europe" to my partner. The collection on which this work was lounded 

 contained many specimens of birds obtained in my younger days. Mr. 

 Dresser sold his collection to a gentleman, by whom it was presented to 

 the Victoria University, Manchester. The donor is now known to have 

 been Mr. J. T. Thomasson. 



Du Chaillu (Paul B.). 



See Stevens, S. 



This celebrated collector, the rediscoverer of the Gorilla, worked in his 

 early days lor the Maison Verreaux. Jules Verreaux, who came to England 

 when the German army approached Paris in 1870, was received by the 

 English ornithologists with great sympathy, and lived for some three 

 weeks in my house. He told me that Du Chaillu was not only a first- 

 rate collector, but an absolutely straightforward man, and that after his 

 first eflbrts at scientific collecting he was entrusted with money for a 

 second expedition into the interior of Gaboon by certain French zoologists. 

 Du Chailiu's second collection was lost in a shipwreck, and when he 

 afterwards arrived in Paris with another consignment, he made known 

 his arrival to Jules Verreaux, and announced his intention of surrender- 

 ing the collection he had brought with him for the benefit of the former 

 subscribers. The latter, however, were unreasonable, and wanted to- 

 prosecute Du Chaillu for the loss of the money contributed towards 

 his second venture, and he therefore sailed away to America ; and thus 

 Cassin was able to describe the wonderful novelties which Du Chaillu had 

 brought back from Gaboon. He afterwards went back to the latter 

 country under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadel]>hia, and continued his researches [cf. Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad., 1855, p. 439 ; 1856, pp. 156-159 (Moonda river), 316-322 

 (Cape Lopez) ; 1857, pp. 33-40 (Muni river) ; 1859, pp. 30-55, 133-144, 

 172-176, pis. 1 and 2 (Camma and Ogowe rivers) ]. This was the story 

 told me by my old friend, Jules Verreaux. 



Of. Obituary, Geogr. Journ., pp. 680 and 681, 1903. 



The following account of the explorer appeared in the "Daily 

 Telegraph " of May 1st, 1903, and, as the best record of Du Chailiu's work, 

 is worth preserving : — 



Although the name of Paul Belloni du Chaillu cannot be placed in 

 quite the same category as those of Speke, Grant, Gordon Gumming, 

 Burton, Baker, Stanley, or others of the explorers who, during the past 

 sixty years, unrolled to the knowledge of the civilised world the 

 mysterious wonders of the Dark Continent, yet his work was of great 

 importance, and in some respects his investigations were directed in a 

 more scientific direction than those of many of the men mentioned. M. 

 du Chaillu was a Frenchman, and was born in Paris on July 31, 1835. 

 His father held an official appointment in the French settlement on the 

 Gaboon Eiver on the West Coast of Africa, where he also carried on a 



