26 In Memoriam : Henry Eeles Dresser. 
was always most entertaining. Together with Mrs. Dresser 
he several times called on me while staying in Harrogate, and 
it was a treat to listen to him. He had the rare quality of 
never saying a bad word about anyone. He was strongly 
opposed to the present craze for nomenclature and species 
mongering. 
The first part of his great work ‘ The Birds of Europe,’ 
was issued in 1871, in collaboration with R. B. Sharp, who, 
however, withdrew from participation when appointed Zoo- 
logical Assistant to the Natural History Museum. Dresser 
then carried the work on to its completion in 1881. Though it 
was a very costly undertaking, strange to say it proved to be 
a financial success. 
Other notable works of his are ‘ A Manual of Palzearctic 
Birds,’ published in two parts, 1902-3; ‘ The Eggs of the Birds 
of Europe,’ a complement to his ‘ Birds of Europe.’ 
The illustrations in ‘ The Birds of Europe,’ the two Mono- 
graphs, and ‘ The Eggs of the Birds of Europe,’ are exception- 
ally fine and true to nature. The former sells at the present 
time at {50 to £60. 
He also published two important Monographs; one on 
the Bee-eaters (1884-86), and one on the Rollers (1893). He 
contributed many important articles to The Zoologist, Ibis, 
etc., besides translating several valuable Swedish articles. 
When President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union he 
joined us on the Middleton-in-Teesdale excursion. For a 
number of years he was a member of the Yorkshire Wild Birds 
and Eggs Protection Committee. 
He had a magnificent collection of eggs and birds’ skins, 
and I was able to present him with a few varieties of eggs I had 
in my collection which he had never obtained in his long 
experience as a collector. His collections are now in the 
Manchester Museum.—R.F. 
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Punch quotes (not from The Yorkshire Observer) : “Wanted, Shepherd, 
must be used to feeding on roots.’ 
An illustrated account of the Nelson stone quarries, Lancashire 
appears in The Quarry for December. 
We read in a contemporary that the Annual Soiree of the Coventry 
Natural History Society was recently held. There were about 60 guests 
present, including the Mayor, Councillor M. K. Pridmore, which seems 
all right. But the paragraph is headed, ‘ The Solitary or Mud Wasp !’ 
The Tvansactions of the Yorkshive Numismatic Society, Vol. I., part 5, 
edited by T. Sheppard, M.Sc., has recently been issued, and the part com- 
pletes the first volume. (Hull: A. Brown & Sons, ts.). Since the Society - 
was founded in 1909, its publication has contained descriptions of nineteen 
new Yorkshire medals and tokens, nineteen unpublished seventeenth 
century Yorkshire tokens and eight unpublished Lincolnshire pieces. 
The complete volume contains 238 pages, 19 plates, and no fewer than 
415 illustrations in the text. 
Naturalist, 
