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narrative of his last moments, given by a contemporary, was trivially 

 touched upon as "sensational." 



Admitting that this is not delicately put, it seems, never- 

 theless, to hit the mark, and may be justified, ex post facto, 

 by a quotation from an abstract of Dr. Sclater's address on 

 Waterfowl, given in Nature (July 20, 1880) : 



Of the whole number of 174 generally recognised species of Anatidae, 

 77 may, I think, be best set down as Arctic, although some of them, such 

 as Tadoma rutila, Fuligula rufina, and Marmaronetta angustirostris, 

 cannot be strictly so termed, as they inhabit only the temperate portions 

 of the Palaearctic region. Very many of the Paljearctic species also, as 

 will be noted below, go far south in winter, and intrude into the JEthio- 

 pian, Indian, and Neotropical regions. 



A grant of £100 was made in 1874 in aid of Dr. Anton 

 Dohm's Zoological Station at Naples ; in view " of the benefits 

 likely to accrue to zoological science from its establishment; 

 and, secondly, in the expectation that valuable acquisitions to 

 the Society's fish house (which the Council hope shortly to 

 see rebuilt on a much more extended scale) would ultimately 

 be received by means of this Institution. 



Dr. Dohrn had close relations with many English natu- 

 ralists, and carried out some of his early investigations at 

 Millport, on the Clyde, the home of David Robertson, with whom 

 he became very intimate. In the " Naturalist of Cumbrae " — 

 the story of the life of David Robertson — the Rev. T. R. R. 

 Stebbing said (p. 190), when speaking of the Naples station, 

 "one might be almost justified in considering that Millport 

 stands to it in the unassuming relation of a fairy godmother." 



The second edition of the Library Catalogue, published in 

 1872, contained the titles of about 2,100 works; and the third 

 edition, issued in 1880, made the total 2,300. 



The fifth edition of the Vertebrate List appeared in 1872, 

 the sixth in 1877, and the seventh in 1879. The number of 

 species catalogued were 1,826, 2,143, and 2,325 respectively. 

 In 1872 the "Index" to the Proceedings (1861-1870) was 

 published. 



The number of papers presented at the Scientific Meetings 

 increased, and this was of course reflected in the augmented 

 size of the volumes of Proceedings. 



