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once more, we are still far from seeing peace — in fact, I 

 might almost say as far off as then. This terrible "war has 

 not spared our Club^ and we all have to regret the personal 

 loss of many friends and also an irreparable loss to our 

 favourite science. 



"We have to mourn the deaths of Lieutenant R. B. 

 Woosnam, Captain The Hon. Gerald Legge^ Major C. H. 

 J. Whitehead, Lord Brabourne, Lieutenant K. J. Meiklejoliu, 

 Lieutenant C. M. Dyer, and Lieutenant Levels N. G. 

 llamsay. Although not all members of our Club, they were 

 one and all most ardent and indefatigable ornithologists, and 

 their loss is, indeed, a hard one to bear. 



" Among our allies in France, we have to regret the death 

 from wounds of Prince E. d^Arenberg. On the side of our 

 enemies Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg has lost a leg and 

 Count Zedlitz has also been wounded, while Hermann Lous 

 has been killed. We have also to regret the loss, previously 

 announced^ of Mr. R. M. Barrington. In Germany, 

 Ornithological Science has lost through death Count 

 Berlepsch, Professor Bernard Borggreve of Wiesbaden, 

 Herr G. J. von Wangelin, and Dr. Gottlieb von Koch ; also 

 the author and artist of the ' Oologia Palsearctica Lniver- 

 salis,' Herr Georg Krause. In Hungary, the death of 

 Herr Otto Herman removes the pioneer of bird-protection 

 and of bird-migration studies in the Austrian Empire. 

 Austria has sustained another loss in the death of Professor 

 Augustin Bonomi of Rovereto. 



" The beginning of the present month has added to our 

 many losses one which will more than arouse the sympathies 

 of ornithologists throughout the world. On Dec. 2nd, Henry 

 Eeles Dresser passed away in Cannes at tlie age of 77 . His 

 ornithological activity extended over half a century, and 

 his more important writings cover 45 years, beginning with 

 his papea* in '^The Ibis' for 1865, 'On the Birds of Southern 

 Texas/ and ending with the completion of his ' Eggs of the 

 Birds of Europe' in 1910. His fame for all time will, 

 however, rest on his monumental work ' The Birds of 

 Europe/ which he commenced in collaboration with the late 



