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difFereut title in 1889 and 1893. He also published a large 

 and expensive work in " elephant folio'' on the ' Beautiful 

 and Curious Birds of the World.' 



After his appointment at Chicago he prepared a work on 

 the ' Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin ' and a new edition 

 of his ' Key to the Birds of Eastern North America,' both 

 intended to aid the beginner in identifying his specimens. 



Of late years the Field Museum has acquired a good deal 

 of South American material, and Mr. Cory's last w^ork was 

 the preparation of a ' Catalogue of Birds of the Americas,' 

 of which, however, only two parts have as yet appeared 

 (see Ibis, 1918, p. 500 and 1921, p. 156). We hope 

 that the manuscript of the succeeding parts is sufficiently 

 complete to allow them to be publisiied. 



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

 thologists' Union and President from 1903 to 1905. 

 He was elected a Foreign Member of our own Union 

 only last year. 



Alfred Grandidier. 



From a recent number of ' Nature ' we learn of the death 

 of M. Alfred Grandidier on 13 September, 1921, at the age 

 of eighty-four years. 



Born in Paris in 1836, M. Grandidier began his travels 

 at the early age of twenty, when he accompanied his elder 

 brother to South America, where he spent several years 

 exploring and collecting. In 1863 he started ofl' for the 

 East, intending to make a study of Buddhism in Ceylon 

 and Tibet. Illness caused him to change his plans, and he 

 proceeded to Zau/ibar and tlience to ^Madagascar, which 

 thenceforward brcamc the subject of his life-work. He jjaid 

 two other visits — in 18G6 and 186S — to that island, after 

 which he settled down in Paris to publish the results of liis 

 labours. His great work ' L'llistoire politique, physique 

 ct naturcllc de Madagascar' is still incomplete, some 

 twenty-five volumes out of the forty planned having been 

 issued. It is hoped that his son will continue and finish 

 his work. 



