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OBITUARY NOTICES. 
The publication by which Mr. Southwell will be best 
remembered, however, and which perhaps, and deservedly 
so, brought to him the greatest amount of credit, was the 
completion, in 1890, of the third volume of Stevenson’s 
‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ from letters and other manuscripts left 
by the author. It was no easy task to pick up the threads 
of the author of what has been described as a “ model county 
ornithology,” but Southwell did it, and did it well, supplement- 
ing the author’s notes with much useful information of his 
own. The universal approbation that was accorded the 
publication of this third volume renders any posthumous 
criticism superfluous. He was proud of his share in introduc- 
ing the Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus), the Mediterranean 
Black-headed Gull ( Larus melanocephahis), the Caspian Plover 
(Mgialitis asiatica) and the Wall-Creeper ( Tichodroma 
murania) to the Norfolk List of Birds. 
As an example of the way in which a man may become 
a recognised authority on a subject with which he but rarely 
has the opportunity of gaining his information first-hand, 
is Mr. Southwell’s connection with the Marine Mammalia. 
In 1881 he published, as a small quarto, ‘ The Seals and 
Whales of the British Seas ’ — a series of papers that had 
originally appeared in the pages of ‘ Science Gossip ’ ; and 
from 1884 onwards he contributed annually to the ‘ Zoologist ’ 
a report on the Seal and Whale Fisheries. These valuable 
and interesting reports are largely statistical, and are compiled 
with his usual care and lucidity, from reliable information 
obtained from correspondents connected with the Whale 
fishery. 
His article on “ The Fur-Seal Fisheries of Alaska ” in the 
‘ Gentleman’s Magazine ’ for March, 1891, is worthy of 
mention ; as is also that on Sowerby’s Whale in ‘ The Annals 
and Magazine of Natural History ’ for April, 1893. 
There is one subject in which Mr. Southwell took especial 
interest, and it is no exaggeration to say that it was in part 
owing to his continued perseverance in the matter that 
legislation finally resulted. We refer to the preservation, 
during the breeding season, of those species of birds that 
