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artists to do the work previously so efficiently carried out 

 by her. My father met him soon after his return at 

 Strickland's rooms at Oxford, and was always on terms of 

 friendship with him till he dierl. 



After his return from Australia, John Gould settled in 

 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, and I remember very well 

 being taken by my father — when a boy, I suppose, at Win- 

 chester — to see the great collection of Humming-birds, which 

 was arranged in two rows along a back room, and which, still 

 in their oi'iginal cases^ are to be seen in the Natural History 

 Museum. Gould died in 1881, and was never a member of 

 the Union. 



Gould's Australian birds went to the Academy of Sciences 

 in Philadelphia, and are now well looked after by Mr. Stone, 

 the editor of the ' Auk.^ They were purchased by Edward 

 Wilson, the grandfather of E. A. Wilson the Antarctic 

 hero, for his brother, Thomas B. Wilson, who presented 

 them subsequently to the Academy. 



Hugh Edwin Strickland was born at Eighton, Yorks, 

 March 2, 1811. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, 

 in 1828 and took his degree in 1832. He was in those 

 days chiefly interested in geology, and was a pupil of the 

 celebrated Dean Buckland, then professor at Oxford. He 

 travelled extensively in Europe and Western Asia, making 

 observations on geology and natural history. 



In 1841 he drew up the celebrated '' Code of Eules for 

 Zoological Nomenclature,^'' and these were discussed at a 

 meeting of the British Association held at Plymouth the 

 same year. A committee was formed, consisting of himself, 

 Darwin, Westwood, Yarrell, Owen, and others, to consider 

 the matter^ and in the following year tlie Rules were adopted 

 by the Association. 



After his marriage with a daughter of Sir William Jardine 

 in 1845, he took up ornithology more particularly, and he 

 settled in Oxford, and it was at this time that he wrote his 

 great work on the ' Dodo and its Kindred.^ It was about 

 the year 1848 or 1849, when, after Buckland's resignation 



