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Saunders for liis exertions during his tenure of office as co- 

 Editor o£ ' The Ibis ',"" and duly carried. After a vote of 

 thanks to the Chairman^ proposed by Mr. W. E. Clarke and 

 carried by acclamation^ the Meeting adjourned. The Annual 

 Dinner, held at the Cafe Royal, was attended by twenty-six 

 Members and guests. 



Obituary. — We regret to announce that Mr. Henry 

 Stevenson, F.L.S. &c., died at Norwich on the 18th of last 

 August. His family, originally from Nottinghamshire, had 

 for upwards of a century been proprietors of the old Con- 

 servative county journal, ' The Norfolk Chronicle/ the 

 management of which Mr. Stevenson only resigned when 

 compelled thereto by ill health in 1886. Educated at King's 

 College School, London, he early displayed a taste for field- 

 sports and a keen love for natural history ; in 1855 he was 

 elected Honorary Secretary to the Norfolk and Norwich Mu- 

 seum, a post which he held till his death ; and in 1864 he was 

 amongst the first additions made to the original number of 

 the Members of the British Ornithologists' Union. His 

 chief interest centred in the Norfolk and Norwich Natu- 

 ralists' Society, of which he was one of the founders, and its 

 President in the year 1871-72. No year passed without con- 

 tributions from his pen to the ' Transactions ' of that Society, 

 the last being " On the Vocal and other Sounds emitted by 

 the Common Snipe," read at the Meeting held on the 27th 

 of March last. The pages of the ' Zoologist' also, for many 

 years, bear testimony to his diligence and accuracy as an ob- 

 server. To a succession of domestic bereavements was added, 

 since 1875, acute bodily suffering; and it is not surprising 

 therefore to those who knew him well that his chief work, 

 ' The Birds of Norfolk,' vol. i. of which appeared in 1866 

 and vol. ii. in 1870, should remain unfinished. To those 

 who enjoyed his friendship, Mr. Stevenson was a delightful 

 companion ; his powers of observation seemed almost intui- 

 tive, while his genial nature endeared him to all. 



