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had secured examples of several land-birds. The ' Valhalla ' 

 had not been able to go to South Trinidad, as originally 

 planned, and was proceeding south to the Straits of Magellan 

 and the Pacific. 



From ' Globus ' we learn that the well-known naturalists 

 Paul and Fritz Sarasin have undertaken a new expedition 

 for the further exploration of Celebes, and will send their 

 specimens of birds and mammals to the Dresden Museum. 



We hear that the Tring Museum has lately received a 

 collection of birds from Hainan, the scene of Whitehead's 

 explorations (' Ibis,' 1900, p. 192). It has been formed by 

 three Japanese collectors, from whose labours Mr. Rothschild 

 expects results of considerable value. 



Our enterprising correspondent, Mr. Robert Hall, 

 C.M.Z.S., of Melbourne, has left his home for Vladivostock, 

 and will pass the spring in Amoorland, where, in company 

 with two ornithological friends, he will observe and collect 

 the birds of North-eastern Siberia. In the summer he 

 proposes to proceed to London by the new Transasiatic 

 railway to greet his brother ornithologists before returning 

 to Australia. 



XXVI.— Obituary. 



Mr. T. E. Buckley, Mr. A. A. Le Souef, and Dr. C. Berg. 



Ornithology loses a steadfast adherent, and many orni- 

 thologists as steadfast a friend, by the death, on the 4th of 

 November, 1902, of Mr. Thomas Edward Buckley. Born 

 on the 3rd of April, 1846, at St. Thomas's, Old Trafford, 

 near Manchester, of which parish his father (who came 

 from Saddleworth, in Lancashire) was rector, he was educated 

 at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated 

 B.A. in 1869. Three years before this he had passed part of 

 the long vacation in Lapland, reaching Quickjock, whence 

 he brought back a considerable collection of birds, and was 

 so smitten with the charms of Scandinavia that he revisited 

 the country in 1867 and 1868, though he never again 



