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of Canon Scott and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey; another loss to 
science was Roland Trimen, who, although an Entomologist, 
as Curator of the Cape Town Museum did much useful work 
for Ornithology; our most severe loss, both to Zoology 
generally and to our Club, was the death of Captain F. C. 
Selous; further losses due to the war are those of Captain 
Lord Lucas and Commander The Hon. R. O. B. Bridgeman ; 
death has also taken from us R. Y. Balston, T. H. Nelson, 
BE. A. Mearns, and F. E. L. Beal, all well known for excellent 
work in our favourite science. During the present year 
we have also lost E. P. Ramsay and Adolph Nehrkorn ; 
while the war is responsible for the deaths of Henry Peavot, 
Lieut. H. E. O. Dixon, Otto Le Roi, and Captain Charlton. 
“In spite of all the obstacles due to the fearful conflict 
which has engulfed half the nations.of the world, our science 
has maintained its activity, though of course great explor- 
ations have been impossible. 
“In this country ‘ British Birds’ has continued to give us 
much interesting matter, such as the contmuations by 
Mr. Witherby and Miss Jackson on the moults of British 
birds, &c. The completion of Thorburn’s fine book on 
British Birds has been arrived at, Parts III. and IV. having 
been issued. Mullens and Kirke Swann have published 
their ‘Bibliography of British Ornithology,’ a work of the 
greatest use to British ornithologists. Both the ‘Irish 
Naturalist’? and the ‘Scottish Naturalist’ contain many 
articles of interest, among others the regrettable fact of the 
final extermination of the Golden Eagle in Ireland. 
“Theold-established and familiar magazine ‘The Zoologist’ 
has since January of this year been amalgamated with 
‘British Birds’; it was founded by Edward Newman in 
1843, and thus had a life of 74 years. 
‘“*Many articles have been published on the birds observed 
on the various fighting fronts, also on the habits and 
behaviour of birds in the fighting lines. Also observations 
on birds encountered in the North Sea and North Atlantic 
have been publisned in ‘The Ibis’ by Lieut. J. N. Kennedy. 
In France the ‘Revue Francaise d’Ornithologie’ has — 
