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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. Emin Aucust Gor.pi, a Corresponding Fellow of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union since 1903, died suddenly at Bern, Switzerland, 
July 5, 1917, in the 58th year of his age. He was born at Ennetbihl, 
Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, August 28, 1859. He studied at the 
Zoological Station at Naples and was an assistant of Prof. Ernst Haeckel 
at the Zoological Institute at Jena. In 1884 he went to Brazil and became 
associated with the museum in Rio de Janeiro. After the fall of the Em- 
peror Dom Pedro II, in 1889, he retired from this position and lived for four 
years in the state of Rio de Janeiro. About 1894 he founded the museum 
in Para, now known as the Museu Goeldi. This institution which com- 
prised not only a museum but also a zoélogical garden and a botanical 
garden was taken over by the state a few years later and Goeldi then 
became honorary director. In 1905, after 20 years of life in the tropics, 
he returned to Switzerland and took up his residence in Bern where, since 
1908, he has been professor of zodlogy in the Cantonal University. He 
visited the United States in August, 1907, at the time of the meeting of 
the Seventh International Congress of Zoélogy in Boston. 
Dr. Goeldi has published a number of papers in English, German and 
Portuguese on various branches of zoédlogy, but chiefly on mammals, birds 
and fishes. He is also the author of a monograph on the mosquitoes of 
Brazil. His best known publications on birds are his ‘Aves do Brazil,’ 
in two volumes, 1894-1900, and the supplement to this work entitled 
‘Album de Aves Amazonicas,’ in three parts, 1900-1906, containing colored 
illustrations of about 400 species. He also contributed several papers to 
‘The Ibis’, including an important one on the ‘Ornithological Results of a 
Naturalist’s Visit to the Coast Region of South Guyana,’ Brazil, in 1895. 
He was especially interested in studying the habits of birds and was the 
discoverer of the parasitic habits of Cassidix oryzivora. He was also deeply 
interested in bird protection and during his residence in Rio de Janeiro 
and in Para endeavored to secure the enactment of legislation for the pro- 
tection of species which were being ruthlessly slaughtered for the millinery 
trade. Two of his memorials to the Governor of the State of Para were 
later translated into English and published under the title ‘Against the 
Destruction of White Herons and Red Ibises on the Lower Amazon,’ Para, 
1904. The museum which bears his name will long remain a monument 
to the energy of Dr. Goeldi in encouraging natural history work in Brazil.— 
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ALFRED JoHN Nortu, a Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithol- 
ogists’ Union since 1902, died of heart failure at Sydney, Australia, May 6, 
1917, only five months after the death of his former chief and associate 
1JIn this connection his portrait was published in Pop. Sci. Monthly, Aug. 1915, p. 171. 
