158 Obituary. 



He was born at Breziiobanya, in Hungary, on June 27, 

 1835, the son of Karl Herman, a surgeon. Always interested 

 in natural history, and especially in birds, after many 

 youthful vicissitudes he obtained the post of taxidermist 

 in the Museum at Siebenbiirgen in 1863. Later on he 

 became interested in polities, and was a member of the 

 Hungarian Parliament, where he was instrumental in 

 passing laws which greatly advanced scientific research in 

 Hungary. In 1877 he founded the official organ of the 

 Royal Hungarian Museum of Natural History, and was its 

 editor for ten years. The second International Ornitho- 

 logical Congress at Budapest in 1891 Avas almost entirely 

 under his management, and its notable success was entirely 

 due to his power of organization and capacity for work. 

 Herman was also the founder and organizer of the Royal 

 Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithology, a body primarily 

 founded for the study of the migration of Hungarian 

 birds, and best known, perhaps, through its organ 'Aquila,' 

 of which twenty yearly volumes have been published. 



Herman wrote extensively on other subjects, such as the 

 ethnography, politics, folk-lore, and history of his native 

 land. He was a man of great breadth of mind, enormous 

 energy, and an untiring worker, and by his death Hungary 

 loses one of its most illustrious men of science. 



We are indebted to the pages of the ' Auk ' for most of 

 the facts contained in this notice. 



Gerald Legge. 



It is with great regret that we have to record the loss of 

 another of our best field-naturalists in the Gallipoli 

 Peninsula. Captain the Hon. Gerald Legge, 7th Batt. 

 South Staffordshire Regiment, was killed in action at 

 Suvla Bay on the 9th of August, 1915. 



During recent years battle, murder, and sudden death 

 have sadly thinned the ranks of the B.O.U., and prematurely 

 claimed many of our best and bravest. Though we deplore 

 the death of those who have accomplished their life's work 

 and helped to make our Union famous, it is the loss of our 



