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Professor Newton' and Mr. Howard's 'Territory in Bird-Life/ 

 both of wliich have been reviewed at length in the pages 

 of ' The Ibis/ Another work should be mentioned, though 

 it is doubtless well known to you all. I refer to the new 

 work on 'British Birds' by various well-known contributors 

 under the editorship of Mr. Witherby. It is prepared on 

 somewhat novel lines, and certainly contains more informa- 

 tion, though in a somewhat cramped space and language, than 

 any other " British Bird Book " hitherto published. Other 

 works completed are Messrs. Mullens, Swann, and Jour- 

 dain's ' Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology ' 

 and Mr. Swann's ' List of the Accipitres,' of which we are 

 glad to see he is about to issue a new edition. 



During the past year we have to deplore the loss of a 

 good many fellow-workers, both members of the Union and 

 others. Chief among them are Colonel R. Gr. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay, who for several years presided over the Union, and 

 Colonel Feilden, so much beloved by all who knew him 

 well, and who had such a distinguished record in other 

 fields besides ornithology. We have also lost Mr. H. M. 

 Upcher, the oldest-elected member of the Union, and 

 Major Henry Jones, the talented and patient bird-artist, 

 whose collection of paintings are now in the library of the 

 Zoological Society. The death of Mr. W. Warde Fowler 

 deprives us of ona of the most charming and literary minded 

 of popular bird-writers, while Lieut. Gr. Wyman Bury was a 

 collector and writer of considerable merit. His knowledge 

 of Arabia and the Arabs was probably unique. 



Of our fellow-workers abroad we have to deplore the 

 death of Mr. J. A. Allen, for many years the Curator of the 

 Mammals and Birds in the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York and an Honorary Member of the 

 Union ; also Mr. Charles Cory of the Field Museum in 

 Chicago, who has written much on South American Birds ; 

 Dr. V. Bianchi of the St. Petersburg Museum, also an Hono- 

 rary Member of the Union, who died, I believe, of privation 

 in January of this year ; while the other prominent names 

 which occur to me are those of M. Alphonse Dubois, the 

 veteran Belgian ornithologist, and of Prof. Max Fihbringer, 



