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Continent. On the return voyage he visited Gough Island, 

 never before visited by a naturalist, where he obtained, 

 among other treasures, a new Finch (Nesospiza goughensis) 

 and an Albatross which is still an ornithological conundrum. 



Dr. Bruce's entire collections, comprising thousands of 

 zoological and geological specimens^ were presented by him 

 to the Royal Scottish Museum in 1921, and are a lasting 

 monument of his unbounded enthusiasm, and indomitable 

 perseverance under circumstances that would have deterred 

 the vast majority of mankind. • 



Dr. Bruce died in his fifty-fifth year after a long and 

 distressing illness. His undying affection for the Antarctic 

 is made singularly manifest by his request that he be 

 cremated and his ashes cast on the waters of the South 

 Atlantic, preferably about 10 degrees south and 15 degrees 

 east, a request which will be duly carried out. 



William Eagle Clarke. 



Charles Barney Cory. 



We liave to record the death on 29 July, 1921, in his 

 65th year, of Mr. C. B. Cory, for some years the Curator of 

 Birds in the Field Museum at Chicago. 



Mr, Cory was born in Boston, Mass., in 1857 and was 

 the son of Barne}^ Cory. He was educated at Boston and 

 in the St. Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Univei'sity, 

 and subsequently went into business in Boston. In 1894 

 he sold his collections to the Field Museum in Chicago and 

 became Curator of the Department of Ornithology there^ a 

 position which he continued to hold until his death. 



In his early days Mr. Cory was much interested in 

 West Indian Bird-life; he amassed large collections and 

 visited many of the islands himself, besides employing 

 collectors. The results of his observations and researches 

 appeared in several volumes, the first of which, ' Birds of 

 the Bahama Islands,' appeared in 1880 ; this was followed 

 by the ' Birds of Haiti and San Domingo,' 188J-, and 

 ' A List of the Birds of the West Indies,' which was 

 first published in 1885 and was reissued under a slightly 



