ie in? | Notes and News. 51l 
Dr. E. P. Ramsay. He was born in North Melbourne, Australia, June 11, 
1855, and was educated in the public and grammar schools of Melbourne. 
Later he worked at the jeweler’s trade for some years. At an early age he 
developed an interest in ornithology which was stimulated by visits to 
the National Museum at Melbourne and by the officers of this institution, 
Sir Frederick McCoy the director, and John Leadbeater in charge of orni- 
thology. In 1878 he corresponded with Ramsay and eight years later went 
to Sidney to arrange the Ramsay collection of birds and the collection of 
eggs of the Australian Museum. After spending several months at this 
task he was asked to prepare the ‘Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and 
Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania’ which was pub- 
lished in 1889. About this time he was appointed an assistant to the cura- 
tor, Dr. Ramsay, and in 1891 was made ornithologist of the museum, a 
position which he retained until his death. 
He has published many papers on the birds of Australia, among the more 
important of which are: ‘Aves of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central 
Australia,’ 1896, ‘List of Birds collected by the Calvert Exploring Expedi- 
tion in Western Australia,’ 1898, and a new and greatly enlarged edition 
in 4 volumes of his ‘Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia 
and Tasmania,’ 1901-14. His papers have appeared chiefly in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, the ‘ Records’ of the 
Australian Museum, the ‘Agricultural Gazette’ of New South Wales, the 
‘Victorian Naturalist,’ ‘The Ibis,’ and the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Zoological 
Society of London. 
North devoted much attention to detailed studies of the life histories 
of certain species which occur in the immediate vicinity of Sydney. He 
was very careful in his statements and in some respects was one of the ablest 
ornithologists that have studied the birds of Australia. His labors have 
been commemorated in the names of two genera of birds, Northiella and 
Northipsitta, and in the Northern Banksian Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus 
banksii northi), all described by Mathews in 1912.— T. 8S. P. 
Rev. Witi1am Roaers Lorp, an associate of the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union since 1901, died in Dover, Mass., February 2, 1916, in the 
69th year of his age. He was the son of Daniel Miner and Eliza Ann 
(Hardy) Lord, and was born in Boston, Mass., May 6, 1847. His early 
education was received at Williston Seminary, Mass., and in private schools 
in Brooklyn. He graduated from Amherst College with the degree of 
A. B. in 1875 and from the Union Theological Seminary, in New York, in 
1878. During the next 17 years he held several pastorates in the east 
at Riverdale-on-Hudson, Wollaston Heights, Mass., and in Boston. 
From 1895 to 1898 he was located at St. Paul, Minn.; from 1899 to 1901 
at Portland, Ore.; from 1902 to 1907 at Rockland, Mass.; and since 1909 
at Dover, Mass. 
Mr. Lord was deeply interested in birds and especially in popularizing 
