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of the United States National Museum, and others. His 

 various writings aggregate the respectable total of 121, of 

 which a complete account has been published in No. 40 of the 

 Bulletin of the United States National Museum, with a very 

 good portrait of him. Messrs. MacLeaman and Ober, two 

 energetic collectors, sent him a large quantity of specimens 

 from Panama and the West Indies, in which Lawrence found 

 a good number of remarkable and new species, which he 

 described in the journals mentioned above. 



I had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of Lawrence 

 in the year of the Centennial, in 1876, on my way, with my 

 friend Salle, to Philadelphia, and I have kept amicable relations 

 with him, up to the time of his death. 



From him, I received a certain number of typical speci- 

 mens collected by Messrs. MacLeaman and Ober. These 

 are now in the Paris Museum. I have also found him a very 

 good friend, and always willing to help his scientific colleagues. 

 His death is a great loss to Science. In memory of our 

 friendship I have made the new Genus Lawrencius with the 

 beautiful and rare Humming Bird, formerly known as 

 E. cup}'eiceps^ Lawrence. 



William Ruxton Davison, Curator of the Raffles 

 Museum, Singapore, died on the 25th of January, 1895, at 

 his post. He was born at Burmah, India, where he resided 

 up to the time of his death. At first he was employed by 

 Mr. A. C. Hume, the celebrated Indian Ornithologist, as a 

 collector, and in this, he was very successful. He collected 

 extensive series of birds, amonor which were manv new 

 species, which were subsequently described by Mr. Hume. 

 Many beautifully-prepared skins of Indian Birds which I have 

 in my collection were prepared by him. A good portrait of 

 Davison will be found in the third volume of Oates' Edition of 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs of hidian Birds, published in 1890. 



Edward Hargitt, died on the 19th of March, 1895. 

 He was born on May 3rd, 1835, at Edinburgh. At an early 

 age, he studied in the schools of the Royal Scottish Academy, 

 under Robert Scott Lander, and soon became a painter of 

 merit, and his works, chiefly in water colours, were frequently 

 to be seen in Burlington House. It is during his travels as 

 an artist that he acquired the taste of Ornithology, which he 

 kept up until his death. His favourites were the Wood- 

 peckers. In 1890, he produced the Picidae, vol. xviii. of the 



