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An extensive memoir, with a portrait and a complete 

 bibliography of his scientific writings, for which we are 

 indebted for most of the above information, will be found 

 in the '^ Irish Naturalist' for November 1915. 



EWEN SOMEKLED CaMERON. 



"We regret to record the death of E. S. Cameron, which 

 took place at the Southern California Sanatorium, Lamanda 

 Park, Pasadena, California, on May 25 last. E[is death was 

 caused by an abscess on the brain, the result of two accidents 

 when horses fell with him. Cameron, who was born on 

 December 19, 1854, was the son of Allan Gordon Cameron 

 of Barcaldene, Argyllshire. In 1885 he sold his Scottish 

 estates and went to Montana, where he resided for many 

 years at Marsh in Dawson County. He married in 1889 

 Miss Evelyn Jephson Flower, a sister of the 1st Lord Bat- 

 tersea, but leaves no children. 



From his earliest days Cameron was devoted to ornith- 

 ology, and spent all his spare time in its pursuit. He wrote 

 " The Birds of Custer and DaAvson Counties, Montana '^ for 

 the ' Auk ' of 1907 and 1908, and also a number of detailed 

 studies of characteristic species of the Rocky Mountain 

 regions, which were enhanced by the photographic illus- 

 trations contributed by his wife, who had a keen sympathetic 

 interest in his ornithological work. To the ' Ibis ' he sent 

 only one contribution, " On the Migration of Phalaropes in 

 Montana" (Ibis, 1900, pp. 67-70), but of late years he has 

 written several articles on the birds of Montana for ' Country 

 Life,' illustrated by a fine series of photographs. 



He was elected a Member of the Union in 1889, and an 

 Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1903 

 and a Member in 1910. 



Otto Herman. 



In consequence of the War and the difficulties of seeing 



foreign journals, we fear that we have overlooked the 



death of Dr. Otto Herman, which took place at Budapest 



on December 27, 1914, in the eightieth year of his age. 



