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Penzance on the 25th of January last, at the age of 70. 
The son of a clergyman belonging to an old Cornish family, 
Mr. Rodd was educated as a solicitor, and became a mem- 
ber of the chief legal firm in Penzance at an early age. 
Commencing from the year 1838, he was the author of nume- 
rous communications to the ‘ Reports of the Royal Institution 
of Cornwall’ and the ‘ Zoologist’ on the ornithology of the 
county. In 1864 these papers were collected and republished 
under the title of ‘A List of British Birds occurring in the 
Land’s-end District.’ A second edition of this list, in an 
enlarged form, was issued in 1869; and we understand that 
a still more elaborate work on the same subject, entitled ‘ The 
Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, which was left 
nearly ready for the press at the time of the author’s decease, 
will be edited by Mr. Harting, and will shortly be published by 
Messrs. Triibner. Mr. Rodd’s collection of birds and scien- 
tific books are left, we understand, to his nephew, Mr. Edward 
Rodd, of Chard, Dorset. 
Dr. THomas Mayo Brewer, the well-known ornithologist 
of Boston, Mass., and an occasional contributor to this 
Journal, died on the 23rd of January last, at the age of 66 
years, after a ‘short illness. In 1839 Dr. Brewer published 
an edition of Wilson’s ‘ American Ornithology,’ with a syn- 
opsis of all the North-American species then known. He 
was also one of the joint authors, along with Professor Baird 
and Mr. Ridgway, of the important ‘ History of North-Ame- 
rican Birds,’ published in 1874. Dr. Brewer paid special 
attention to oology, and was one of the leading authorities 
on the eggs of American birds. His ‘ North-American 
Oology, of which the first volume was published in 1857 
by the Smithsonian Institution, was, unfortunately, not 
continued. 
We also announce with much regret the death, at the 
early age of 34, of Mr. Jonn Epmunp Srureez, of Olveston 
Hall, Montserrat, W. I. Mr. Sturge had lately commenced 
the study of the unknown ornis of the island in which he 
resided, and had begun to supply collections to one of the 
Editors of this Journal, which it was hoped might lead to a 
