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John Macfarlan Charlton. 



Capt. J. !M. Charlton, who was killed in action near 

 La Boiselle on July 1 at the age of twenty-five, was an 

 enthusiastic naturalist and taxidermist. He was at Upping- 

 ham School from 1907 to 1910, where he was one of the 

 official observers of the ornithological section of the Natural 

 Science Section. 



He contributed a good many observations, chiefly con- 

 nected with bird-life in Northumberland, to 'British Birds' 

 and the * Zoologist,' and published in the latter journal 

 a more extended account of the Birds of South-east 

 Northumberland. 



Roland Trimen. 



Though he can hardly be considered an ornithologist, 

 Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., whose death we regret to hear 

 took place at Epsom on July 25 last, was a distinguished 

 entomologist. Born in 1840, he entered the Cape Civil 

 Service in 1860, and was appointed Curator of the South 

 African Museum at Cape Town in 1873. During his tenure 

 of that post his chief interest was in the collections of South 

 Afi'ican insects and especially butterflies, on which he pub- 

 lished two important works. During this period he described 

 and figured in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' 

 two remarkable birds, Curacias spatulatus (the Racket- 

 tailed Roller) and Laniarius atrocroceus ; the latter is now 

 generally acknowledged to be only an aberration of L. atro- 

 coccineus, the handsome Red and Black Shrike found in 

 Bechuanaland. 



Trimen retired from his post in South Africa in 1895, and 

 was succeeded by Mr. William L. Sclater. In 1910 he was 

 awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society, of which 

 he was elected a Fellow in 1883, for his work on mimicry 

 and allied problems in African Lepidoptera. He was also 

 at one time President of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



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