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the German Colonies of Kaiser Wilhelm's Land and the Bismark Archi- 

 pelago were established. 



Returning to Leyden as the curator of the Rijk Museum in 1898 he 

 continued his ornithological researches for some years but in 1904 he was 

 appointed curator of the Ethnographic Section of the Museum at Bruns- 

 wick, Germany, where he remained for the rest of his life, devoting his 

 attention almost entirely to ethnology. 



Dr. Finsch was well known in England and published contributions in 

 'The Ibis' and other British journals as early as 1870. In 1872 he visited 

 California and a few years later travelled in Lapland and in Siberia. 



His ornithological work was entirely systematic and consisted besides 

 the volumes already mentioned, of numerous contributions to the ' Journal 

 fur Ornithologie,' the 'Ned Tijdschrift Dierkunde,' and other journals. 

 As has been truly said "he was one of the best of the old school of German 

 workers." 



Henry Reed Taylor, well known as the founder of the 'Nidologist,' 

 died at Agnewo, Calif., Sept. 23, 1917. He was the son of Bishop William 

 Taylor of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Isabella A. (Kimberlin) 

 Taylor, both of whom were born in Virginia. Harry R. Taylor as he was 

 generally known was born at Capetown, South Africa, Oct. 6, 1866, but 

 spent most of his life at Alameda, Calif. He was an enthusiastic oologist 

 and published many articles on nests and eggs of western birds especially 

 Raptores and Hummingbirds. During the period of his ornithological 

 activity, from 1884 to 1906, his field of work was confined to California 

 and included chiefly the counties of Alameda, Monterey, Placer, San Benito 

 and Santa Clara, and the Farallone Islands. His contributions were pub- 

 lished chiefly in the 'Young Oologist,' 'Ornithologist and Oologist,' 'Nidol- 

 ogist' and 'Condor.' From 1893 to 1897 he edited the 'Nidologist' which 

 was then the organ of the Cooper Ornithological Club. One of his latest 

 publications, issued in 1904, was his 'Standard American Egg Catalogue,' 

 which included an appendix containing a directory of oologists. Shortly 

 after the great earthquake of 1906 he became a patient in a sanatorium 

 where he passed the last eleven years of his life. 



Taylor was one of the founders and vice president of the California 

 Ornithological Club in 1889, and vice president in 1894 and president in 

 1895 of the Cooper Ornithological Club. Although he never joined the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, he was known to a number of the members, 

 attended the Washington meeting in 1895, and published the first group 

 photograph of the Union (Nidologist, III, p. 41, Dec, 1895). He was 

 active, energetic, always enthusiastic in any matter pertaining to oology, 

 and was one of the most prominent of the little group of California field 

 collectors of the eighties. — T. S. P. 



The Principal Ornithological Societies. — The following list of 

 societies is given for the convenience of readers who may be interested 



