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advancing the interests of those whose only claim on him was that of a 
common humanity.” 
We understand that Mr. Rodd’s fine collection of Cornish Birds, many 
of them extremely rare, and all beautifully mounted by Mr. Vingoe, of 
Penzance, have been removed to the residence of his elder brother, 
Mr. Francis Rodd, of Trebartha Hall, by whom they will be carefully 
preserved. 
Tue Late Dr. T. M. Brewrr.— Ornithologists will hear with deep 
regret the news of the death of Dr. Thomas Mayo Brewer, of Boston, Mass., 
which took place on January 23rd, after a short illness. The grandson of 
Colonel James Brewer (a leader of the ‘ Boston tea party” of 1773, and an 
active partisan in the subsequent revolution), T. M. Brewer, born in Boston 
in 1814, took an early and lively interest in politics and also in Natural 
History—these widely divergent subjects furnishing, however, for some 
time merely the occupation for the leisure hours spared from his duties as 
practising physician. This versatility of talent led to connection in an 
editorial or managerial position with several important journals; but it is 
as an ornithologist that we must now speak of him, for as such he is most 
widely known on this side of the water. In 1889, when only twenty-five 
years of age, Dr. Brewer had already brought out a new edition of Wilson’s 
‘Ornithology,’ with a synopsis of all the North American species then 
known; and years later he commenced his ‘ Oology of North America,’ a 
grand work, of which only one volume was issued, the great expense causing 
the relinquishment of its publication by the Smithsonian Institution. In 
conjunction with Prof. Spencer Baird and Mr. R. Ridgway, he commenced, 
in 1874, a ‘History of North American Birds,’ and in addition to these 
more important works he was an active and valuable contributor to the 
* Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club,’ one of the best quarterly 
journals in existence on the subject of birds and bird literature, During a 
recent residence of two years in Kurope many of us had the opportunity of 
enjoying his genial society, and to those who did not know him personally, 
his writings and correspondence, sparkling as they were, can convey but 
little idea of the loss his friends have sustained.— From ‘ The Field.’ 
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Linnean Society or Lonpon. 
January 15, 1880.—Prof. Auman, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
Messrs. John Poland (Blackheath), J. Darell Stephens (Plympton), and 
Prof. Allen Thomson were elected Fellows, and T. J effery Parker (Tooting) 
an Associate of the Society. 
