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crossopterygian, Polypterus as well. With this was obtained 

 material for the study of Gvmnarchus and other peculiar fishes 

 of the African streams. 



In 1902, Mr. Budgett undertook an expedition to Nyanza and 

 the head streams of the Nile. 



A final trip was made in 1903, to the Niger River, in which, 

 as in the others, he found species of Polypterus, and with which 

 he made most interesting experiments in artificial fertilization. 



In all of these expeditions, .Mr. Budget found what he sought, 

 and their importance to science can hardly he too highly esti- 

 mated. The embryology, taxonomy and geographical distribu- 

 tion of these fishes, as well as of different genera of frogs, 

 received notable accessions. But Mr. Budgett 's health was 

 sacrificed in the work. A recurrent attack of "blackwater 

 fever," one of the many diseases known as malaria, caused his 

 death on January 19, 1903, at the age of thirty-one. 



The publications of Mr. Budgett give the record of these ex- 

 peditions, and also discussions of the anatomy, the embryology 

 and the breeding habits of Polyterus. Protopterus and other 

 species. The batrachians of the Paraguayan Chaco are de- 

 scribed in detail, and there is a paper on the birds of the Gambia 

 River. 



All these papers of Budgett, with others by Dr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, Dr. J. Graham Kerr, J. Herbert Budgett, Richard 

 Assheton, Edward J. Bles and Edward T. Browne, based on 

 material collected by Mr. Budgett, have been sumptuously 

 printed in the present memorial volume by Mr. Budgett 's friends 

 and fellow-workers at Cambridge. A delicately appreciative 

 biographical sketch of Mr. Budgett is contributed by Dr. Arthur 

 E. Shipley. In this are extracts from Mr. Budgett 's diaries, 

 showing his fine appreciation of nature and his charming and 

 forceful use of English. The plates illustrating this volume 

 are worthy of the text, and tne whole is a noble memorial to 

 an able naturalist, a brave and lovable man, who fell untimely 

 from the hazards of his chosen calling. 



David Starr Jordan. 



