12—ORNITHOLOGISTS KILLED IN 
THE WAR 
those British ornithologists who, with 
thousands of other valiant soldiers, 
have given their lives for King and Country. 
In days to come mankind will be astounded 
by the grand total of human lives sacrificed 
in the War. At present we have figures 
for our own losses, to which we must add 
the more or less detailed statistics of losses 
sustained by our allies and our enemies; 
this vast total will be swelled still further by 
those who, though they have not fallen in 
actual battle, have perished as a direct con- 
sequence of the War. Shell and bullet, 
torpedo and gas, are reckoned as some of the 
weapons of war ; accidental explosions, ship- 
wreck, massacres, famine and disease, must 
be regarded as its contingencies. A Member 
of Parliament stated early in 1918 that from 
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