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Giitke, stimulated in him that keen interest in the subject of 
migration, which led to such important results, and he will be 
best known for the very energetic part he took in connection 
with Mr. Harvie-Brown in bringing about the appointment of 
a “Migration Committee” by the British Association, of which 
Committee he was appointed lion. Secretary at the Swansea 
Meeting in 1880. It is not too much to say that the valuable 
investigations made by this Committee, extending over a period of 
nine years — the materials of which are not yet fully worked out — 
were due mainly to his untiring exertions — if that had constituted 
his only contribution to natural science, he ought, for that alone, 
to be held in remembrance by all Ornithologists. 
Mr. Cordeaux did not confine himself entirely to ornithology ^ 
but was a recognised authority on the zoology and botany of his 
district, and the writer’s first introduction to him, now many years 
ago, .arose from their mutual interest in the Seals found in the 
Wash ; nor was ho negligent of the many social obligations which 
pertain to the position of a country gentleman and a .Justice of 
the Peace. 
Mr. Cordeaux was a Fellow of the Eoyal Geographical Society, 
a Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and various other 
Societies, as well as of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, of 
which ho was President in 1894. By his personal friends his loss 
will be long sincerely regretted, and his death leaves a gap in the 
ranks of the school of practical naturalists which it will take 
long to till. — T. S. 
John Brooks Bridgman. 
John Brooks Bridgman, a Vice-President, and an original member 
of our Society, died at Norwich on the 6th of October, 1899, at 
the age of 62. He was the son of William lvencely Bridgman, 
a man of varied acquirements in practical science, especially as 
a Naturalist and Microscopist, from whom the son doubtless 
inherited the taste for natural science, which developed itself 
early in his life. Bridgman was born at King’s Lynn on the 
9th of June, 1837, and, with his father, removed from that town 
to Norwich in 1842, where he in due time entered the Grammar 
School. Subsequently he studied dentistry, and after taking the 
degree of Licentiate of Dental Surgery, he assisted and eventually 
