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Ornithological Club,' as well as the three editions of the 

 A. O. U. Checklist. He also edited twenty-two volumes of 

 the ' Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History/ 

 and several of the Memoirs of the same Institution. 



Mr. Allen was a Founder Fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union and President for the first seven years 

 of its existence (1883-1891). He was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the B. O. U. in 1890 and an Honorary INIember 

 in 1907, and was the recipient of many other honours and 

 distinctions. 



Personally Mr. Allen was of a most shy and retiring 

 nature. He never appeared on the lecture platform and 

 seldom or ever spoke or attended the meetings of scientific 

 societies, but he was a most kind and sympatlietic colleague 

 and much beloved and respected by all his fellow-workers 

 and pupils. At the meeting of the A. O. U. at Philadelphia 

 in November last a memorial address was delivered by his 

 former assistant and associate. Dr. Frank M. Chapman, 

 and will doubtless duly appear in the pages of our con- 

 temporary. 



In addition to this, a special volume Avas published by 

 the American Museum in 1916, entitled 'Autobiographical 

 notes and a Bibliograpliy of the Scientific Publications of 

 Joel Asaph Allen,' containing full particulars of his 

 activities, with an excellent portrait. It is from this work 

 that most of the facts here recorded have been obtained. 



SeRGIUS NiKOLAEVICH At-PHKRAKI. 



The news of the death of Mr. Alpheraki, of Petrograd, 

 which took place in 1918, was briefly mentioned in the last 

 number of ' The Ibis.' 



Born in 1850, Alpheraki was primarily an entomologist, 

 and published a number of papers chiefly on Lepidoptera. 

 To ornithologists he is best known as the author of a mono- 

 graph of the Ducks (' Utki Ilossii') and the Geese (' Gusi 

 Rossii ') of his native land. The latter volume was translated 

 into English by John Marshall, and pul)lished by Rowland 

 Ward in 1905 with a frontispiece ])y Dr. P. P. Sushkin and 



