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which he is most popularly known is perhaps his ' Guide to the Castle 

 Museum' (Jarrolds). He was a member of the Zoological Society 

 and the British Ornithologists' Union. He served on the Castle 

 Museum Committee and the Norfolk and Norwich Library Committee. 

 He actively interested himself in the formation of the new Museum 

 Association at Norwich, and he was one of the leading spirits of the 

 Science Gossip Club. Mr. Southwell leaves two daughters. His wife 

 predeceased him about five years ago." 



Mr. Southwell appears to have first contributed to the pages of 

 ' The Zoologist ' in 1869, when he described a nesting of the Little 

 Grebe, and since that time very few volumes indeed of our Journal 

 have appeared without some interesting and valuable communication 

 from his pen, and also for a very considerable number of years his annual 

 reports on the northern " Seal and Whale Fishery " which possess an 

 importance in zoological literature which subsequently will reach a 

 fuller estimation. He was a naturalist of the old school, now, alas ! 

 represented by sadly diminished numbers, and was an extremely 

 cautious and accurate recorder ; his writings exhibit an absence of con- 

 troversy, though in his private correspondence he was a very candid 

 critic. We will conclude with a cutting from an appreciation written 

 by our contributor Mr. A. H. Patterson : — " Mr. Southwell will not 

 be remembered so much as an original observer and litterateur as a 

 careful and painstaking compiler, and by the excellent work he has 

 accomplished in simplifying and completing the work begun by 

 others. Of his one published book, ' The Seals and Whales of the 

 British Seas,' he was not at all proud, and, indeed, has expressed his 

 dissatisfaction with it to me in strong terms. Yet his researches 

 among the Finnipedia and Cetacea of our islands have been of great 

 service in reducing from a chaotic state the nomenclature and classi- 

 fication to a well-arranged system, and his editing of Arctic whaling 

 records and logs is appreciated all through the world of science. He 

 was foremost to give credit where credit was due, and deeply resented 

 literary and scientific cribbage." 



