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and he was acting as Deputy Reader of Geology at Oxford, 

 that my father first met him, when still a Scholar of 

 Corpus. 



In 1853, Avhen examining a railway-cutting on a newly- 

 made railway near Retford, Strickland was run over and 

 killed by a passing train. 



His collection of bird-skins, about 6000 in number, were 

 presented by his widow in 1867 to the University of Cam- 

 bridge, and a Catalogue of them was prepared and published 

 in 1882 by Osbert Salvin ; they are now under the charge 

 of Hans Gadow. 



Sir William Jardin'e, 7th Bart., was born in Edinburgh 

 in 1803 and was a son of the 6th Bart, He was educated 

 at Edinburgh University, and devoted the earlier part of his 

 life to ornithology. 



His chief works were the ' Illustrations of Ornithology,' 

 published with Selby, and many volumes of the Naturalist's 

 Library. He founded the Annals & Mag. N. H. in 1837 

 under the title of the ' Magazine of Zoology and Botany.* 

 He also founded and edited a journal called 'Contributions 

 to Ornithology,' and compiled a memoir of his son-in-law, 

 Strickland. Though never a member of the Union, he 

 maintained his interest in ornithology until his death in 

 1874, and amassed a considerable collection of bird-skins. 

 There are several allusions to visits paid to Jardine Hall 

 in Dumfries-shire in my father's journal. 



His collection of birds was sold by auction in 1886, twelve 

 years after his death, and was dispersed. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman forwarded a short review of the 

 genus Poliolais. He sent for exhibition and description a 

 new species from Cameroon Mountain and the young of 

 P. helenora, from Fernando Po, which had not previously 

 been described. 



The genus Poliolais was created by Alexander for a new 

 species which he obtained in 1902 in the mountain-forests 

 of Fernando Po, and named Poliolais hdenorcB. The genus 

 is placed between Camaroptera and Sylviella, and is charac- 



