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and wrote many papers on these matters. Most of his 

 publications are to be found in the Atti of the Italian 

 Society of Natural Sciences, which is also the organ of the 

 Civic Museum, in ' Avicula/ and its successor the ' Eivista 

 Italiana di Ornithologia.' 



A good artist, Martorelli designed and painted most of 

 the illustrations with which his various works were illus- 

 trated. 



For most of the facts recorded in this notice we are 

 indebted to Count E. Arrigoni Degli Oddi, his compatriot 

 and esteemed friend, who writes in the highest terms of his 

 character and achievements. His death is a great loss to 

 Italian ornithology. 



John Eandall Hatfeild. 



We regret that we have omitted to mention the death of 

 Mr. J. R. Hatfeild, which took place on 12 August, 1917, 

 at a nursing home in London. He was elected a member 

 of the Union in 1902. 



Born in 1874, he came of a Yorkshire family, his father 

 being John Hatfeild of Mellow Grange, near Doncaster. 

 He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and succeeded 

 to a house and estate at Thorpe Arch in Yorkshire, but he 

 lived the greater part of his life at Edlington Hall near 

 Horncastle in Lincolnshire. He was passionately devoted 

 to shooting and fishing, and this led him to take a keen 

 interest in Natural History and especially in birds. He had 

 no great scientific knowledge, but collected with zeal and 

 liked to try his hand at taxidermy. 



He married Miss Nest Hyde, who was killed about three 

 years ago as the result of an accident while trying a new 

 hunter over jumps. He leaves behind him one daughter. 



We regret that the news of the death of Col. W. Vincent 

 Legge, Col.M.B.O.U., of Tasmania, has lately reached us. 

 We hope to print a notice of his life and work in the next 

 number of ' The Ibis.' 



