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secretary, and the publication nine years afterwards of Mr. Eagle 

 Clarke's " Digest of the Observations," sufficiently appraise the 

 value of this work. The Acts for the protection of sea- and wild- 

 fowl gave him much occupation, and he was one of the expert 

 witnesses before a Select Committee of the House of Commons 

 which was formed to take evidence and advice on the subject, the 

 particulars of which are to be found in a Blue Book published 

 in 1873. 



Besides being a frequent and most valued contributor to our 

 pages, as well as to the * Naturalist,' * Ibis,' Meteorological 

 Society's ' Journal,' and other publications in sympathy with his 

 favourite studies, he was a member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union ; F.R.G.S. ; and President, in 1894, of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union. His last publication was apparently in the 

 August number of the ' Naturalist,' and, strangely, was an 

 obituary notice of his late friend and brother naturalist Dr. 

 Bendelack Hewetson, the last paragraph of which contains such 

 prophetic sentences — when read to-day — as " when all present 

 voices have become silent," and a reference to the il valley of 

 shadows." 



John Cordeaux was that type of English country gentleman 

 who was not only esquire among the inhabitants of his neigh- 

 bourhood, but also over the fauna of his county. 



