718 Recently published Ormthological Works. [li)is, 



art which attained such a degree of perfection in the United 

 States at the end of the last century. 



Pahuer, however, was l)y no means only a taxidermist, he 

 made many collecting expeditions to Alaska, Cuba, INIexico, 

 as well as to Java, where he was for nearly two years 

 working with Mr. Owen Bryant, who financed the expe- 

 dition. 



Notwithstanding his official duties Palmer wrote a good 

 many papers, not only on ornithological subjects but also 

 on botanical and other themes; a list of these, some sixty 

 in number, are given in the memorial notice written by 

 Mr. Richmond (Auk, 1922, pp. 305-321), and to which we 

 arc indebted for the facts in this notice. Palmer joiiicd the 

 A. O.U. in 1888 and became a Fellow in 1898, and was a 

 great favourite among his fellow-workers at AVashington. 



Theophil Stuueh. 



Dr. Th. Studer, who died at Berne on 12 February last in 

 his 76th year, was Professor of Zoology in the University of 

 that place, and was Avell known for his work ou the develop- 

 ment of feathers, on which subject he wrote several papers. 

 He was also the author, Avith Br. Fatio, of that excellent 

 ' Catalogue of the Birds of Switzerland,' which was first 

 published in 1889, and has passed through several editions. 

 It is undoubtedly the leading text-book on the subject of the 

 Birds of Central Europe. 



XLTI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



Baker oti the Birds of British India. 



[The Fauna of British India, includinp- Ceylon and Burma. Published 

 under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. 

 Edited by Sir Arthur Shipley, O.B.E., etc. Birds. Vol. i. (Second 

 Edition). By E. C. Stuart Baker, O.B.E., etc, Pp. 1-479. 8 col. ph., 

 many text-figures. London (Taylor & Franci.;), July 1922. Svo.] 



The first volume of the Birds in the first edition of the well- 

 known ' Fauna of British India,' prepared by Mr. Gates under 



