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and also in botany, and these collections elaborated bv various authorities, 

 added greatly to the world's knowledge of the natural history of the inte- 

 rior of China. 



We learn with great regret of the death of Mr. Lionel William Wig- 

 glesworth at Suva, Fiji, on June 7, 1901. Mr. Wigglesworth was well- 

 known as the author of the ' Aves Polynesise' (1S91), and as joint au- 

 thor, with Dr. A. B. Meyer, of 'The Birds of Celebes' (see this journal, 

 XVIII, pp. 399-401). He left England in November, 1900, via Australia 

 and New Zealand, for a long tour of ornithological exploration among the 

 lesser known islands of Polynesia, for which work he had ample prepara- 

 tion, and to which he had long eagerly looked forward. Mr. Wiggles- 

 worth, we learn from 'The Ibis' (Oct. 1901, p. 751), was born Feb. 13, 

 1865, in the county of Buckingham, England, the second son of the late 

 Rev. James L. Wigglesworth, curate of Hanslope-with-Castlethorpe. After 

 being educated at Trinity School, Old Stratford, his ardent interest in birds 

 led him to take up seriously their study, and in 1889 he went to Braun- 

 schweig, Germany, and for two years was a pupil of Professor Wilhelm 

 Blasius; he then proceeded to Dresden and became a volunteer assistant 

 at the Dresden Museum under Dr. Meyer. He died of dysentery soon 

 after his arrival at the Fijis. His sad death is a serious loss to science, as 

 well as to his many friends. 



The first Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science given by the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford was conferred in June last upon Dr. P. L. Sclater, the senior 

 editor of 'The Ibis,' and is a well-merited recognition of his eminent ser- 

 vices to science, and especially to ornithology. 



Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. announce their intention of 

 soon publishing a facsimile edition, in four volumes, large crown oc- 

 tavo, of 'Audubon's Birds of America' (1840-44), provided sufficient 

 interest is shown in the project by ornithologists and others. This 

 proposed Library Edition will contain Audubon's complete text re- 

 produced by photographic process, which will secure, of course, abso- 

 lute fidelity to the original. The original pagination will be preserved, 

 so that the volumes will be in all respects as available for reference as 

 the rare and expensive seven-volume edition of 1840-44. The plates will 

 not be reproduced, since the attendant expense would defeat the purpose 

 of editor and publishers to bring Audubon's text within the reach of all 

 ornithologists and bird students. 



The first volume will contain a portrait of Audubon and a sketch 

 of his life hy his grand-daughter. Miss Maria R. Audubon. The editor's 

 notes, which will be printed at the end of each volume, will give the 

 present nomenclature and the general range of each species as now 

 known, besides studying the probabilities in the case of the few proble- 

 matic species described by Audubon, and performing other similar 



