15 [Vo]. xxxix. 
1899, but I cannot myself remember his attendance at any 
of our meetings. 
“The third member whom the Club has lost during the 
last year is Mr. G. H. Dawson, who died 17 October, 1917. 
He was a member of Lloyds, and, though interested in birds 
and a good observer, did not, so far as I am aware, write on 
his observations or experiences. 
“Australia has suffered great losses during the past year 
by the death of three of her most prominent workers— Messrs. 
E. P. Ramsay, A. J. North, and Col. W. V. Legge. Ramsay, 
who was born in Australia, was for many years Director of 
the Australian Museum at Sydney. He wrote many papers 
on the birds of Australia and of New Guinea and the Pacific 
Isles, publishing many new species in the ‘ [bis’ and in some 
of the Australian scientific journals. North, who succeeded 
him in charge of the birds of the Sydney Museum, is best 
known for his ‘ Nests and Eges of Birds found breeding in 
Australia and Tasmania,’ published by the Australia Museum 
between the years 1901-1914. 
“The name of Col. Legge, who, though born in Tasmania, 
served in the Royal Artillery for many years, is always con- 
nected with his book on the Birds of Ceylon, published in 
three parts between 1878 and 1880, one of the best and most 
complete monographs of a limited avifauna. — 
“‘ Among foreign ornithologists we have lost during the 
year Dr. E. 8. Goeldi, a Swiss by birth, who spent many 
years in Brazil, where he founded a great museum and a 
zoological and botanical garden at Para and raised the whole 
institution to a level with the best of similar institutions in 
Europe. His work was not confined to ornithology. He ~ 
retired to Berne, in Switzerland, in 1907, where he died 
July 1916. 
“ Finally, I cannot omit to mention Dr. Otto Finsch, who 
was so well-known to ornithologists of the Victorianera. He 
died at Brunswick in January last at the age of 78. In his 
early days he was a great traveller, and collected in many 
lands. His most remarkable journeys were to the Pacific, 
first in 1879-82 as a student and man of science ; but later, 
