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specimens. Amongst these were the first examples of the 

 Mooruk, or Cassowary^ of New Britain, wliich was named 

 after him by Gould Casuarius bennetti (see P. Z, S. 1857, 

 p. 269). Dr. Bennett's name is also commemorated in 

 ornithology by Rectes bennetti, Scl. (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 692), 

 from New Guinea, and JEt/otheles bennetti, Sal v. et d'Alb., 

 from the same country. 



The well-known German ornithologist August Karl 

 Eduard Baldamus was born at Giersleben, in Anhalt, on 

 the IStli of April, 1812, and died at Wernigerode, in Prussia, 

 on the 29th of October last. Baldamus was by profession a 

 schoolmaster and Lutheran clergyman, but was devoted from 

 his earliest youth to the study of birds and their eggs, and 

 made many journeys into Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria, and 

 other countries of Southern Europe in quest of them. In 

 1840 he founded the ornithological journal ' Naumannia,'' 

 and carried it on for eighteen years. In 1860 he prepared, 

 in conjunction with Dr. J. H. Blasius, a supplement to Nau- 

 mann^s 'Vogel Deutschlands.' Baldamus was also much 

 interested in poultry, and in 1876 published his ' Illustrirtes 

 Handbuch der Fiederviehzucht,^ and in 1882 his ' Haus- 

 gefliigel.' 



In 1849 Baldamus founded the ' Deutsche ornithologische 

 Gesellscliaft,' and was its first secretary. From 1860 to 

 1867 he was associated with Dr. Cabanis in the editorship 

 of the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie.' His last ornithological 

 work was a summary of his knowledge of the Cuckoo and its 

 allies (' Das Leben der europaischen Kuckucke^), a subject 

 in which he was for many years a leading authority, and was 

 always specially interested. This essay was published at 

 Berlin in 1892, and will be found noticed in ' The Ibis ' for 

 that year (p. 559). 



