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devotion to birds throughout his active life. Altogether he 

 is said to have made 216 new genera and to have described 

 422 new species. From personal experience, the writer can 

 say that Cabanis's knowledge of birds was extraordinary, and 

 that, with the possible exception of John Gould, few ornitho- 

 logists that be has known were able to pick out a new form 

 from a collection with greater facility than Cabanis. 



In 1892, after fifty years' service in the Berlin Museum, 

 Cabanis celebrated his jubileum and retired into well-earned 

 rest. The editorship of the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie,' 

 which he had commenced in 1853, was shortly afterwards 

 transferred to Dr. Ueichenow, his son-in-law and successor, 

 by Avhom it is still carried on, as our readers know, with 

 unremitting energy and well-deserved success. 



Twenty-three birds bear the specific name " cabanisi," 

 bestowed on them by various authors, and serve to perpetuate 

 Cabanis's services to Ornithology. 



Cabanis was elected an Honorary Member of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union in 1860, at the first Anniversary 

 Meeting after the Union was constituted, and at his decease 

 was the only Honorary Member left of that early date. He 

 was likewise, we need hardly say, a member or associate of 

 all the leading Societies that have the promotion of Zoology 

 as their object. 



After his retirement from his official duties Cabanis lived 

 at his private residence at Frederichshagen, near Berlin. In 

 August 1901 he attended the International Zoological 

 Congress at Berlin, where the writer of this notice had the 

 pleasure of greeting him, apparently in excellent health. 



Cabanis died after a short illness at his own residence, on 

 the 20th of February last, at the age of ninety years and 

 eleven months. — P. L. S. 



With much regret we have also to record the death of one 

 of our Foreign Members, Dr. Victor Fatio, of Geneva, 

 well known to most of us as one of the leading authorities 

 on the Birds of Switzerland. 



Victor Fatio was born at Geneva on the 28th of November, 



