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LimicolcR wade on shores, 



Dunlins, Curlews : there are scores ; 



Plovers, common Snipes and jacks 



OEdicnemus ; Scolopax. 



He who order Gavice learns, 



Kinks of Skuas, Gulls and Terns. 



Order Alcce waddly walk, 



Puffin, Guillemot and Auk — 



But alas ! we live too late 



To see the Auk they called ' the Great '- 



Pygopodes don't forget, 



Grebes and Divers love the wet. 



Stormy Petrel : Mother Careys 



Ends the list with Tubinares." 



F. R. 



OBITUARY. 



Adam Sedgwick. 



The world delights in personality, and British Zoology has lost 

 perhaps its most interesting personality by the death of Professor 

 Adam Sedgwick on Feb. 27th. He was born in 1854, and was a 

 great-nephew of the geologist of the same name, who was professor 

 in Cambridge from 1818 to 1873, and who was best known for his 

 work on British Palaeozoic Fossils, and for his trenchant attacks on 

 the doctrine of Evolution. The family was a Yorkshire one, the uncle 

 having been born at Dent, and the nephew having spent most of his 

 early life there. 



Adam Sedgwick, Jun., was educated at Marlborough College 

 under Bradley, later Dean of Westminster, and Farrar, later Dean of 

 Canterbury. He was designed for the medical profession, and entered 

 King's College, London. In 1874 he came up to Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, then the centre of Biological science in the University. 



Michael Foster was at that time praelector in Physiology at the 

 College, and he had already begun to attract around him that band of 

 keen researchers who subsequently developed the Schools of Physi- 

 ology, Zoology, and Botany at Cambridge. The late Prof. Bridge, 

 also of Trinity College, was Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy. 



