474 Obituary. 



90. Tschusi zu Schmidhojfen on the Birds of Austria- 

 Hungary. 



[Oruitliologische Collectaneen aus Osterreich-Uiigaru uiid clem Occu- 

 pationsgebiete. Von Vict. Putter v. Tscliusi zu Schiuidhoffen. Ornitli. 

 Jahrb. viii. p. 24.] 



Ritter v. Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen is always active in the 

 ornithological field of Austria and Hungary. He now gives 

 us notices of various occurrences of the rarer species. A 

 nest of Nucifraga caryocatactes pachyrhynchus was obtained 

 in the Kremsthal, in Carinthia, last year, and a Flamingo 

 {Phcenicopterus roseus) was captured alive near Olmiitz, in 

 Moravia. 



XXXVI. — Obituary. — Heer A. A. van Bemmelen, 

 Sir Edward Newton, and Mr. A. D. Bartlett. 



Adriaan Anthony van Bemmelen, lately Director of the 

 Zoological Gardens, Rotterdam, was born Nov. 3rd, 1831, at 

 Almelo, in Holland, and was educated at Leiden. From his 

 youth upwards he was always fond of natural history, and 

 at the age of seventeen commenced to attend the academical 

 lessons in zoology, botany, and anatomy at Leiden, and to 

 work at the collections in the Zoological Museum, where 

 Temminck was then Director, and Schlegel, Herklots, Snellen 

 van Vollenhoven, and Finsch were members of the staff. With 

 all these zoologists he was on excellent terms, and on the 1st 

 of July, 1859, was named a Second-class Assistant at the. 

 Museum, and in 1865 promoted to be First-class Assistant. 

 In this position he remained until the year 1866, when he 

 was selected to be Director of the Rotterdam Zoological 

 Gardens, succeeding there the famous lion-tamer Martin. 

 Ever since the accession of Van Bemmelen the Rotterdam 

 Gardens, notwithstanding many difficulties that had to be 

 surmounted, have constantly progressed in a favourable 

 direction. The collection of living animals has considerably 



