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There were several species from Rodriguez described by 

 Milne-Edwards, and again by Newton and Dr. Giinther in 

 the Transit volume of the Phil. Trans., and by Newton and 

 Gadow in an article on the remains discovered in INIauritius by 

 Sauzier (Trans. Z. S. xiii. p. 281, 1893). Newton was certainly 

 the first to recognize among the bones from the Mare aux 

 Songes those of Aphanapteryx, which he instantly referred 

 to the bird just previously described by Frauenfeld from the 

 old Vienna picture. 



For the last five years his health was perceptibly declining. 

 Yet, though always more or less of an invalid, his interest 

 in the pursuits of his more vigorous days never flagged, as 

 witness the paper last referred to. The unselfish modesty 

 which marked all his natural-history work was equally con- 

 spicuous in his daily life. His whole nature was the very 

 opposite of self-asserting. There was a delightful charm in 

 the simplicity and genuineness of the man, which won the 

 hearts of all who knew him well; and looking back on a 

 friendship of forty years, the writer can but feel it to have 

 been a high privilege to have known one in whose character 

 were blended all the qualities that go to make the careful^ 

 truthful naturalist, and the refined Christian gentleman. 



Abraham Dee Bartlett, the well-known Superintendent 

 of the Gardens of the Zoological Society, London, died at 

 his official residence in the Regent's Park on the 7th of jNIay 

 last, at the age of nearly 85 years. The late Mr. Bartlett 

 was born in London on the 27th of October, 1812, the second 

 son of John and Jane Bartlett, and was brought up in his 

 father's trade as a bird-stuffer and dealer in natural -hi story 

 specimens. As regards birds, Bartlett soon became a master 

 of his art, and through the greater period of his life was 

 engaged by his friends and correspondents when choice speci- 

 mens, or svich as wanted special care and attention, were to 

 be mounted. He was also possessed of a very accurate know- 

 ledge of British birds, and often supplied Vigors, Yarrell, 

 Gould, aud other authorities of that period with specimens 

 and information. As early as 1839 Bartlett brought before 

 the Zoological Society his discovery of a new British species 



