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^Hm.— Obituary. 
Dr. Emil Holub, Herr Carl Euler, Lt.-Col. the Rt. Hon. 
E. H. Cooper, and Lord Malcolm. 
Dr. Emil Holub^ the well-known African traveller and 
collector, died at Vienna on the 21st of February last_, in 
tlie o5th year of his a^^e. Dr. Holub was a native of 
Bohemia and of Czech descent. He was educated as an 
apothecary, but emigrated early in life to South Africa, and 
practised as a doctor at Kimberley and elsewhere. His 
original inducement to penetrate into the far interior of the 
country was his ardent taste for Natural History, especially 
Ornithology^ to the pursuit of which his first seven years 
of travel were mainly devoted. His journeys were described 
in his ' Sieben Jahre in Siid-Afrika^ (Wien, 1881), a work 
which was translated into English and published in London. 
In conjunction with the late Freiherr v. Pelzeln, the col- 
lection of birds made on this occasion was described by him 
in a volume entitled ' Beitrage zur Ornithologie Siidaf rikas ' 
(Vienna, 1882)*. Dr. Holub subsequently returned to 
South Africa, and made a more extended expedition into the 
Marotse and Mashukulumbe countries north of the Zambesi, 
now forming part of Northern Rhodesia. During his four 
years^ wanderings on this occasion (1883-87) a large col- 
lection of native arms and implements, as well as of natural 
objects, was made, and was exhibited at Vienna on his 
return to Europe. This journey was described in his work 
^ Von der Capstadt ins Land der Maschukulumbe ^ (2 vols., 
Vienna, 1890). 
Carl Euler, the well-known Brazilian ornithologist, died 
at Rio de Janeiro on the 27th of November, 1901. He was 
born at Basel_, in Switzerland, in 1834, and after finishing 
his studies at the Gymnasium there, emigrated to Brazil in 
1853, and settled at the German colony of Cantagallo, in 
the province of Bio. Here he became Swiss Vice-Consul 
and owned a large farm called the Fazenda do Bom Valle, 
* For notice of this work, see ' Ibis/ 1882, p. 462. 
