1918.] Obituary. 157 



zoology. The story of the expedition was told by Rawling 

 ill his book, 'The Land of the New Guinea Pigmies/ 



On his return home his mind reverted to the Himalaya, 

 and the great ambition of his life was to climb Mt. Everest, 

 which he believed could be done from the northern or 

 Tibetan side. On the outbreak of the war Rawling was 

 appointed to command one of the service battalions of his 

 old regiment. He took his battalion to France in the spring 

 of 1915, and had been fighting there with distinguished 

 success until a stray shell killed him while talking to a 

 friend just outside his Brigade Headquarters. 



For his exploring work he was awarded the Gold Medal 

 of the Royal Geographical Society only last year, and his 

 death ends a career of great achievement and of still greater 

 possibilities in the future. 



Commander The Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman, R.N. 



The following details of the death of Commd. Bridgeman, 

 M.B.O.U., a notice of whose death appeared in 'The Ibis,' 

 for last April (p. 247), recently appeared in the 'Times' 

 and will be read with interest by his fellow-members of 

 the B. O. U. :— 



'' Details of a series o£ adventures which befell Flight- 

 Commander Edwin Roland Moon, D.S.O., R.N., of South- 

 ampton, who was at first reported killed in East Africa, but 

 who is now a prisoner in the hands of the Germans, and 

 Commander the Hon. Richard Bridgeraan, D.S.O., R.N., 

 who lost his life, have been received : — 



" It appears from the story of a captured German 

 merchant captain and from native sources that a seaplane 

 carrying the two officers was forced to land in the delta of 

 the Rufigi River owing to engine trouble. As they could 

 not repair the damage the officers burnt their machine. 

 Flight-Commander Moon swam across a stream which 

 swarmed with crocodiles with a view to finding a boat or 

 canoe, but failed in his quest. On the following day he 

 again crossed the river, but was carried down stream by the 



