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We trust that these birds may be allowed to survive, though as a com- 

 mentary to the desire we extract the following note from ' The Shooting 

 Times '(Aug. 25th): — "A Portsmouth sportsman thought he had made a 

 lucky haul a few days ago. His eagle eye detected five fine Storks dis- 

 porting themselves on a local waste, and, after much trouble, he succeeded 

 in stalking them, and bagged the lot. He took the rare birds to a taxi- 

 dermist, and a day or two later learned that the Storks had escaped from 

 Sanger's circus, which was visiting the neighbourhood." 



We regret to learn the death of Dr. John Auderson, M.D., F.R.S., 

 which took place very suddenly at Buxton on Aug. 16th. For the follow- 

 ing particulars we are largely indebted to the ' Athenaeum.' John Anderson 

 was born in Edinburgh in 1833. He was educated for the medical pro- 

 fession, and in 1861 took the degree of M.D. of Edinburgh University. 

 His strong taste for natural history, however, led him definitely to abandon 

 his career as a medical man when, in 1864, he was offered the curatorship 

 of the newly founded Indian Museum in Calcutta. In 1868, and again in 

 1874, he was selected by the Government of India to act as scientific 

 officer to an expedition into Western China : and in 1881 he was sent by 

 the Trustees of the Indian Museum to investigate the fauna of the Mergui 

 Archipelago in Tenasserim. Since his return from India, in 1887, Dr. 

 Anderson, acting under medical advice, speut the winters iu the south, aud 

 his periodical visits to Algeria and Egypt roused in him an interest in the 

 fauna of North Africa and Arabia, which has proved of the greatest benefit 

 to science. He defrayed the costs of a collector to accompany Mr. Theodore 

 Bent's expedition to the Hadramaut ; and of late years much of his wealth 

 aud time has been devoted to the preparation or a series of volumes upon the 

 vertebrate zoology of Egypt, which his untimely death leaves uncompleted. 



The friends of the late Sir William Flower, K.C.B. (Director of the 

 Natural History Museum aud President of the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don), are anxious to place a memorial of his great services to science in the 

 Whale Room of the Natural History Museum — one of the departments in 

 which he was most interested, and to which he devoted special care and 

 attention. The memorial would, subject to the consent of the Trustees of 

 the Museum, consist (probably) of a bust and a commemorative brass tablet. 

 It is thought that Sir William Flower's many friends and admirers would 

 be glad to associate themselves with this undertaking. In order to carry it 

 out an influential Committee has been formed. Subscriptions may be paid 

 to the Treasurer, Dr. P. L. Sclater, at 3, Hanover Square, London, W. It 

 has been agreed that each subscription should not exceed £2 2s. 



