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tracted the attention of the Emperor Dom Pedro II and some years ago 

 Lord Walsingham pronounced him one of the two ablest entomological 

 collectors. In a sketch of his life from which these facts are largely de- 

 rived (Science, XLIX, pp. 481-483, May 23, 1919), Dr. W. J. Holland 

 ranks H. H. Smith with Humboldt and Bonpland, Wallace, Bates, Nat- 

 terer, Tschudi, J. B. Hatcher and J. D. Haseman, "who courageously 

 faced dangers in the wilderness in order to secure information at first 

 hand as to the fauna and flora of the great continent where they labored." 



T. S. P. 



Nicholas Alexievich Sartjdny (or following the Russian form of his 

 name, Nikolai Aleksyevich Zarudnuii), an eminent Russian ornithologist, 

 died in March, 1919, at Tashkent in Turkestan, where he was for some 

 years curator of the museum. According to 'The Ibis' for July, 1920, 

 Major F. M. Bailey, of the Indian Political Service, who has recently 

 been in Turkestan, found Sarudny and his wife "living in one room of 

 his house, all the others having been taken from him by the Bolshevists. 

 In this one room was his private collection of birds stored in cardboard 

 boxes and filling nearly the whole space up to the ceiling. This valuable 

 collection was 'naturalized' by the Bolshevists at the time of his death, and 

 is now in the museum at Tashkent." 



Dr. Sarudny was an authority on the birds of certain parts of Russia 

 and also on those of Turkestan, Baluchistan, and Persia. He was a care- 

 ful field naturalist and collector and published a number of papers es- 

 pecially in the 'Messager Ornithologique' on the birds of Central Asia. 

 His most important works include 'An Excursion through Northeastern 

 Persia' with an account of the birds of that region, 1900 (262 pages); 

 'Birds of Eastern Persia,' 1903 (467 pages); ' Verzeichnis der Vogel Per- 

 siens,' 1911; 'Birds of the Pskov Government,' 1910; and 'Birds of the 

 Aral Sea,' 1916 (229 pages). Three of these were published in Russian 

 and the 'Verzeichnis' in German in the 'Journal fur Ornithologie,' 1911, 

 pp. 185-241. Sarudny made four expeditions to Persia in 1896, 1898, 

 1900-01, and 1903-04, and published several papers on each trip. The 

 second and third expeditions were mainly in eastern Persia and the last, 

 in western Persia, formed the basis of 29 separate articles, most of which 

 were devoted to birds. — T. S. P. 



Frederick Webb Headley, of Hertford, England, a member of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of 

 London, died November 25, 1919, after an operation. He was the second 

 son of Rev. Henry Headley, of Brinsop Vicarage, Herefordshire, and was 

 born April 10, 1856. His education was received at Harrow School and 

 the University of Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1878. Two 

 years later he became Assistant Master in Haileybury College, Herts, 

 where he remained until a few months before his death. 



