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It was during liis long residence in Nepal that Mr. 

 Hodgson devoted his attention to Natural History. To the 

 British Museum he presented more than 10^000 zoological 

 specimens, and one of the series of the older zoological 

 catalogues is occupied with an enumeration of the multi- 

 tudinous specimens and drawings of the mammals, birds, 

 reptiles, and fishes of Nepal and Tibet accumulated by his 

 indefatigable energy and transmitted to the National Collec- 

 tion. It is quite unnecessary to give here the titles of 

 Hodgson's numerous ornithological papers. Heference to 

 the standard works of Jerdon, Hume, and Oates on Indian 

 ornithology will show that nearly every page contains his 

 name, while some twenty species of Indian birds bear 

 the specific title hodgsoni. An excellent portrait of Mr. 

 Hodgson is contained in the first volume of Mr. Oates's 

 edition of Hume^s ' Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds.' Every 

 mark of distinction which the learned societies of Europe 

 could confer was deservedly bestowed upon Hodgson, but, as 

 might have been expected, he was never knighted nor asked 

 to become a member of the House of Lords. The last 

 thirty years of his life he spent in a delightful home in 

 Gloucestershire, Alderley Grange, near Wotton-under-Edge. 



All ornithologists Avho have had occasion to refer to the 

 type specimens of Tschudi's Peruvian birds contained in the 

 Museum of Neucliatel will recognize the name of M. le Dr. 

 Louis Coulox, President of the Society of Natural Sciences 

 of that city since 1836, who died there on the 13th of June 

 last at a good old age. M. Coulon was always most courteous 

 and kind in answering inquiries concerning the valuable 

 contents of the museum under his charge, and in arranging 

 for the loan of the specimens when required. His name is 

 commemorated by Ara couloni, Scl., P. Z. S. 1876^ p. 255. 



In 'The Auk' (1894, p. 262) we see with much regret 

 the announcement of the death, at the early age of 38, of 

 the well-known Smithsonian Collector, Pierre Louis Jouy, 

 who was born in New York city February 8, 1856, and died in 

 Tucson, Arizona, on March 22, 1894, from consumption of the 



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