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secured this position he was rapidly carried up the ladder of fame. With 

 marked energy he helped to build up the zoological collections of the 

 museum; wrote his first paper on ornithology, and diligently studied every 

 phase of nature as it was brought to his attention. Later he became deeply 

 interested in politics and was a member of the Hungarian Parliament, where 

 he was instrumental in having laws passed which greatly advanced scien- 

 tific research in Hungary. In 1877, he founded the official organ of the 

 Hungarian Museum of Natural History and was its editor for ten years. 

 The second International Ornithological Congress at Budapest was almost 

 entirely under his management and its notable success was due to his 

 powers of organization and capacity for work. The establishment of the 

 Royal Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithology was another conception 

 of Herman's which was realized largely through his enterprise and ' Aquila', 

 its official organ, was brought into existence and conducted by him through 

 twenty large volumes. 



His extensive investigations on bird migration are well known through- 

 out the world. 



While it is through his numerous ornithological works that he is probably 

 best known, he made many valuable and often extensive contributions to 

 entomology, ethnography, politics, political economy, folk-lore and Hun- 

 garian historical sketches. Among these may be mentioned a notable 

 classic in three volumes on the spiders of Hungary and works on the 

 Hungarian fisher-folk and Hungarian fisheries. Otto Herman was a man 

 of great breadth of mind, enormous energy and an untiring worker. 

 In his death not only did Hungary lose one of its most illustrious sci- 

 entists, but the world lost a man who, through his own efforts, powerfully 

 advanced the cause of science and human civilization, and who stood for 

 all that was noble and great in his every undertaking. 1 — R. W. Shufeldt. 



Egbert Bagg, a Member of the American Ornithologists' Union, died 

 July 11, 1915, at his home in Utica, N. Y. He was one of the original 

 Associates of the Union, elected in 1883, and became a Member in 1914. 

 Mr. Bagg was born in Utica, August 10, 1850, son of Egbert Bagg and 

 Cornelia Hunt, and was educated in the Utica public schools, Hobart 

 College and Cornell University. He was a successful business man and 

 interested in the civic affairs of his native city, serving as school commis- 

 sioner for some years. He was an active member of the Oneida Historical 

 Society and other literary organizations . Among his ornithological publica- 

 tions were 'The Birds of Oneida County, N. Y.,' 1894, and numerous notes 

 on rare or interesting species which came under his observation . 



Ewen Somerled Cameron, a Member of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, and a frequent contributor to 'The Auk' died at the Southern 



1 In preparing this sketch I have employed data drawn from my numerous 

 letters from Dr. Herman, and also the obituary notices by Lambrecht (Ornith. 

 Monatsb. XL, pp. 138-142) and Stefan (Aquila XXI, 1914), for translating which 

 I am indebted to my wife. The portrait is reproduced from another notice by 

 Lambrecht (Barlangkutatas, 1915, III., Heft. 1). 





