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Mr. Howard Saunders, for many years the foremost 

 authority on British Birds, as well as on the family of Gulls 

 (Laridce), died in October 1908, at the age o£ 72 years. (See 

 'Ibis/ 1908, p. 169.) 



Two o£ the best oologists in Germany died in the year 1909, 

 Dr. Eugene Rey and Maximilian Kuschel, the latter a 

 member o£ the Conorress in London in 1905 ; also Dr. Carl 

 Bolle, one o£ the oldest members o£ the German Ornithologists' 

 Society. (Obituaries : Orn. Monatsber. 1909, pp. 97 & 145.) 

 — Dr. Otto Ottosson, another oologist, died in Denmark. 

 (Zeitschr. f. Oologie, 1909, p. 89.) 



It is a long and sad list within the space of hardly five 

 years, containing names of fainous ornithologists and o£ those 

 who were connected with the International Committee er Con- 

 gresses ; but long as it is I have at the last moment to add 

 to it, £or the hist month o£ 1909 deprived us o£ two more 

 authorities and friends : — 



On December 15th Professor Dr. Enrico H. Giglioli died 

 at FlorencOj at the age of 63. Giglioli was known all over 

 the World as an authority on Italian Birds and on Anthropology. 

 His death is an irreparable loss to Italy. (Orn. Monatsber. 

 1910, p. 16.) 



The last death to record for 1909 is that o£ our friend Dr. R. 

 BowDLER Sharpe. At the age of 62 years he succunibed to 

 an attack of pneunionia on December 25th. Space forbids 

 US here to publish a füll obituary. His life-history and the 

 great position he occupied in our midst will be narrated in 

 every Journal connected with ornithology. I will only mention 

 one of his works, which will make his name immortal as long 

 as our science lives : The Catalogue of Birds. 



Ernst Hartert. 



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