GOG Obituary. 



On the 5th of February, 1901, Canon and Mrs. Tristram 

 celebrated their Golden Wedding. After this epoch Tristram 

 dwelt principally at home in Durham, making occasional 

 visits to London, where he attended the Anniversary 

 Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union in May 1903, 

 and the dinner in the evening. Canon Tristram died " full 

 of age and honours " in his residence at Durham, on 

 March 8th, 1906, to the great sorrow of a wide circle of 

 relatives, friends, and acquaintances, who appreciated the 

 high qualities and many-sided knowledge of this remarkable 

 man. 



Juan Louis Cabanis, an Honorary Member of the Union, 

 known to many of us personally and to all of us as the Founder 

 and for forty-one years Editor of the ' Journal fur Ornitho- 

 logie/ was, according to information kindly sent to us by Herr 

 Herman Schalow, born in Berlin on the 8th of March, 1815. 

 He was of French origin, and belonged to a Huguenot family, 

 which migrated into Mark Brandenburg in the days of the 

 Great Elector. Cabanis went to school in Berlin, and studied 

 at the University there from 1835 to 1839 under Johann 

 Milller and Heinrich Lichtenstein. After finishing his 

 University career he went on a voyage to North America, 

 where he passed some time in South Carolina. On 

 returning home in 1841 he was nominated by Lichtenstein 

 Assistant in the Zoological Museum of the University, and 

 in the year 18-49 was promoted to be First Gustos of the 

 same Institution. Here he remained until his retirement in 

 1892, serving under Lichtenstein, Peters, and Mobius with 

 equal zeal and fidelity, and editing the well-known Journal 

 which he had planned and founded in 1843. Amongst 

 other Ornithologists who were his pupils during this long 

 period, or, at all events, came more or less under his guidance, 

 we may mention the well-known names of Reichenow, 

 von Tschusi, Stejneger, Berlepsch, Gadow, Fischer, Bohm, 

 Kollibay, Hartert, Matschie, Konig, and Leverkuhn. 



The first important piece of ornithological work undertaken 

 by Cabanis was his collaboration with Dr. J. J. v. Tschudi 



