100 Obituary. 



one of the most constant and valued contiil)utors to this 

 Journal. Henry Seebohm, who died at his residence in 

 South Kensington on tlie 26th November last, was the son 

 of a well-known member of the Society of Friends, and 

 descended from a family which, though resident in Germany 

 for several generations, came originally from Sweden. Born 

 at Bradford in 1832, Henry Seebohm evinced from his 

 boyhood a strong love of natural history, and devoted to it 

 all the time he could spare from his hours of business. 

 But some years elapsed before he acquired those ample 

 means which enabled him to gratify his tastes more com- 

 pletely. Then, not content with being a mere collector and 

 cabinet naturalist, he made journeys into various parts 

 (Greece, Asia Minor, Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia), 

 in order to collect specimens and to study his feathered 

 favourites in their native haunts. One of his most suc- 

 cessful expeditions Mas that to the valley of the Lower 

 Petchora, in Northern Russia, in company with Mr. J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown, in 1875, when eggs of the Grey Plover, the 

 Little Stint, and the Petchora Pipit [Anthus gustavi), besides 

 those of several other rare species, were obtained. In 1877, 

 in company with Captain Wiggins, Seebohm visited the 

 valley of the Yenesei, in Siberia, and again made important 

 collections of birds and eggs. He also spent some time on 

 the island of Heligoland, and there studied the migrations 

 of birds under the veteran ornithologist, Herr Gatke. 

 Later on he visited various parts of Southern Europe, and 

 undertook a journey to South Africa, in order to observe 

 European birds in their winter-quarters, as well as to collect 

 materials for his work on the Geographical Distribution of 

 the Charadriid(B , which appeared in 1888. 



Kind-hearted and liberal, Seebohm was always ready to 

 assist a struggling ornithologist, and will be greatly missed 

 by a large circle of friends. To the British Museum of 

 Natural History he for many years was a most liberal donor, 

 and we are pleased to be able to say that the whole of his 

 collection of birds has been bequeathed to that institution. 

 For some time past Seebohm had been in weak health, but 



