556 Obituary. 



tl;e War Office asking that, if possible, the Territorial 

 Manoeuvres proposed to be held in the New Forest during 

 May and June should be postponed nntil a later date, owing 

 to the disturbance that would be caused to the fauna at 

 that season of the year. This Avas agreed to. 



A vote of thanks to the Zoological Society of London for 

 the use of their Office during the past year was unanimously 

 passed, and the Meeting was adjourned. 



After the Meeting the Annual Dinner was held, in con- 

 junction with the monthly Dinner of the 13iitish Orniiholo- 

 gist's Club; at Pagani's Restaurant, Great Portland Street. 



XXII. — OhHuary. 



Dr. A. B. Mever, Dr. Carl Parrot, and 

 Mr. W. E. D. Scott. 



Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer. 

 Adolf Bernhard Meyek, whose death at Berlin took 

 place on February 5th last, was born in Hamburg in 

 1840. lie studied jVIedicine and Natural Science in the 

 University of Berlin, and commenced his remarkable career 

 as a scientific traveller and naturalist early in life, devoting 

 himself specially to the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, 

 where he made many brilliant discoveries. In 1870 he 

 commenced his explorations in Celebes and passed on 

 thence to the Philippine Islands and New Guinea, where 

 he ascended the Arfak Mountains and made a large col- 

 lection of Birds. Beturniug to Germany in 1874, Meyer 

 was appointed Director of the Royal Museum of Zoology, 

 Anthropology, and Ethnography at Dresden. In this 

 position he remained for the next thirty ycar^, and made 

 his Museum fauious throughout the scientific world for 

 its excellent oriianizution and valuable contents. During 



