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tliis period he published a long series of communications, 

 cliiefly relating to Birds^ in the ^Journal fiir Ornithologie/ 

 the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ and * The Ibis/ 

 As will be seen by reference to our Indexes^ the papers which 

 he wrote in this Journal were numerous. Meyer had many 

 English friends and spoke our language excellently. The 

 principal separate works that he published were ' On the 

 Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands ' (in con- 

 junction with his English Assistant, Mr. L. W. Wiglcs- 

 worth), and his •' Abbildungen der Vogelskeleten.^ Next to 

 Ornithology, Anthropology was his favourite pursuit, and he 

 wrote many Ethnological papers. 



In 1893, Meyer gave up his position at Dresden and retired 

 to Berlin, where he is said to have been busily engaged in 

 linguistic studies and in various antiquarian explorations. 

 One of Meyer's most usei'ul and most successful pieces of 

 work was his invention of the '' Dresden Case.^' For over 

 tweuty years he worked at the construction of an ideal 

 museum-case which should keep out insects and dust, and 

 yet allow the spectator a clear sight of its contents. This 

 was a very difficult problem, but Meyer solved it more 

 nearly than anyone else had done, and " Dresden Cases " of 

 glass and iron are now well known all over the civilized 

 world. 



Besides being a member of most of the learned Societies 

 on the Continent, Meyer was a Corresponding Member of 

 the Zoological Society of London (since 187«) and a Foreign 

 Member of our Union (1881), and was always ready tofai'our 

 his English friends with information. 



Dr. Cakl Parrot. 



Carl Philip August Parrot, the President of the Bavarian 

 Ornithological Society, died at ^Munich on the 28th of 

 January, 1911, after a short illness. The son of Dr. Jean 

 Parrot, he was born at CastcU fLowcr Eranconia) on the 

 1st February, 18G7, and thus, at the time of his death, 



