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for his studies. The two Counts provided him with the 

 means of taking a voyage to Algeria, where he spent the 

 winter of 1866-67. 



When, in 1871, Jelski moved his quarters to Peru, Count 

 Constantine Branicky made him an allowance on condition 

 that he sent his zoological collections to Taczanowski. In 

 1875 Jelski was succeeded by Jean Stolzmann, who remained 

 in Peru till 1882, when, in consequence of the war with 

 Chili, he travelled from 1883 to 1885 in Ecuador. 



In this way Taczanowski became possessed of rich materials 

 for his great works on the Birds of Siberia and of Peru. 



The study of birds was the principal object of Taczanowski's 

 labours, but he also devoted himself to the study of the 

 Araneids. He made a large collection of these animals in 

 the neighbourhood of Warsaw, and published a list of known 

 species ; afterwards he described the species of certain families 

 from Cayenne and from Peru. 



To Taczanowski the Warsaw Museum is principally in- 

 debted for its rich collections ; for his relations with the 

 Counts Branicky were turned to the profit of the Museum. 

 But amongst private individuals should be also mentioned 

 the names of Professor Dybowski and M. C. Jelski, who, 

 although not in good circumstances, sent all their collections 

 to the Museum. Count Muiszech and Prince Ladislas 

 Lubomirski also enriched it with their contributions. 



Taczanowski was a member of the Society of Naturalists 

 of St. Petersburg, the German Ornithological Society, the 

 Zoological Society of France, the Zoological and Botanical 

 Society of Vienna, the Zoological Society of London, and 

 the American Ornithologists' Union. In 1887 he was made 

 honorary Dr. of Philosophy of the University of Cracow. 



His published works and memoirs were numerous, alto- 

 gether about fifty. Of these the most important are his 

 ' Birds of Poland ' (published in 2 vols, at Cracow, in 

 1882), his ' Ornithology of Peru ' (4 vols., 1884-86), and his 

 memoirs on the " Birds of Siberia," in the ' Bulletin of the 

 Societe Zoologique de France' and in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London.' 



