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but few of his vast store of notes, and it was only during 

 the last few weeks before his death that he was engaged 

 in putting into definite foi-in some of the results of his 

 researches. 



Ogilvie became a member of the Union in 1892, and was 

 an original member of the B. O. C, the meetings of whicli 

 he occasionally attended. He exhibited a pair of Red- 

 crested Pochards killed in Suffolk in 1904, and made 

 another communication to the Club in 1909 on the subject 

 of an immature Golden-eye, also killed in Suffolk, which lie 

 believed to be Barrow's Golden-eye {Glaucionetta islandica), 

 but which was subsequently shown to be the common 

 species [vide B. O. U. List^ new ed., p. 346). 



He leaves a widow and one daughter, and his death is 

 not only a loss to ornithology but also to the Oxford 

 Eye Hospital and other institutions with which he was 

 closely connected. 



We are indebted to a notice in the ' Oxford Chronicle' 

 of 26 January last for most of the information contained 

 in this article. It was written by his friend Mr. Henry 

 Balfour, Curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford. 



Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch. 



The announcement of the death of Prof. Dr. Otto Finsch, 

 which took place at Brunswick on 31 January, 1917, has, 

 we regret to say, only recently reached us. Dr. Finsch was 

 the oldest of the Honorary Members of the Union, having 

 been elected as long ago as 1872. 



Born at Warmbrunn in Silesia on 8 October, 1839, 

 Finsch was brought up in business, and, so far as orni- 

 thology was concerned, was entirely self-taught. In 1858 

 he acted as a private tutor to a family at Rnstchuk in 

 Bulgaria, and his earliest contribution to ornithology was 

 a paper on the birds of that country, published in the 

 'Journal fiir Ornithologie' in 1859. In 1861 he became 

 a Scientific Assistant in the INIuseum at Leyden under 

 Schlegel and began to write regularly on birds in his chief's 



