o42 Obituary. [Ibis, 



volumes oi' which huvc been published, again almost entirely 

 at the sole cost of the founcler. 



The most modest ol: men^ Doria himself wrote bnt little, 

 and that chiefly on Mammals ami Reptiles, but his munifi- 

 cence to natural science can never be forgotten. 



In addition to his zoological activities Doria was a man of 

 affairs, and in 1890 was chosen a Senator of Italy. He Avas 

 also President of the Royal Geographical Society of Italy 

 from 1891 to 1901. 



Louis Bkasil. 



Wc learn witii dee[) regret of the death of Prof. Brasil, of 

 Caen in France, on 15 October, 1918, at the comparatively 

 caily age of fifty-three. He was elected a Foreign Member 

 of the Union in 1917, 



Though born in Paris in 1865. Prof. Brasil lived most of 

 his time at (^aen, where he was brought up, where he 

 obtained his education, and where his scientific career 

 was carried through. He was Lecturer and afterwards 

 Professor of Zoology in the University, and Avas for a 

 period President of the Linnean Society of Normandy. 



Prof, BrasiFs writings were by no means confined to 

 ornithological subjects. He jjublished several papers ou 

 geological problems, while the thesis which gained for him 

 the degree of '' Docteur es sciences'" at the Sorbonne dealt 

 with the digestive apparatus of Polychaete worms. 



Later on the rich collections of the Museum of Natural 

 History at Caen furnished him with material for work ou 

 the higher groups of the animal kingdom. He contributed 

 several [)apers and short notes to the ' Revue Francaise 

 d^^ruithologie,' and in 191-i published a little work on 

 the ' Shore- and Water-Birds of France. Belgium, and the 

 British Islands,' which was favourably noticed in our 

 columns (Ibis, 1914, p. 326). He also wrote on the King 

 Island Emu supposed to have been obtained by Peron, 

 and other papers on the birds of New Caledonia, in 

 Avhich he was specially interested ; while to our own pages 

 he sent a little essay, written in very good English, on the 



