BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CLVII. 



The Late RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D. 



The announcement of the death of Dr. Richard Bowdler 

 Sharpe, at the age of 62, will cause the greatest regret 

 among the very wide circle of his friends and admirers in 

 all parts of the world ; but liis loss will be more especially 

 felt and mourned by ornithologists, for they can best 

 appreciate his great talents and extraordinary knowledge 

 of Birds. 



On the 15th of December, 1909, he attended the dinner 

 and meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, which was 

 founded by him in 1892, and was then apparently in his 

 usual health and good spirits; but while returning to his 

 house at Chiswick he appears to have contracted a severe 

 chill, which rapidly developed into pleuro-pneumonia and 

 ended fatally on the 25th of December. 



Dr. Sharpe was born on the 22nd of November, 1847, 

 and was the eldest son of the late Thomas Bowdler Sharpe, 

 well known as the publisher of f Sharpe's London Magazine.' 

 He early displayed an ardent love of natural history, more 

 especially of birds and insects, and, as a boy, much of his 

 spare time was spent in the company of William Briggs 

 (the " Cookham Naturalist "), who was head-gardener to 

 [February \st, 1910.] a vol. XXV. 



