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We regret to learn, from the pages of our contemporary the 

 * Journal fiir Ornithologie/ that the well-known veteran ornitho- 

 logist Friedrich Boie died on the 3rd of March last. He was 

 born, says Dr. Mobius in an obituary notice, in 1789. When his 

 first contribution was published we are not quite sure ; but his 

 'Reise durch Norwegen,' giving the results of his travels as far 

 as the Loffoden Islands in the year 1817, appeared in 1822, 

 being edited by Dr. H. Boie (his father, we believe) ; while he 

 himself only last year performed the same office for a paper by 

 Herr G. R. Barth. The deceased was probably the first orni- 

 thologist who explored the coasts of northern Norway, now so 

 familiar to sevei'al of us ; and many of his observations are still of 

 the his'hcst interest. 



