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May, 1927 
for Bird Protection would be a wise course to pursue. 
The Chairman stated he did not immediately expect to 
have an active, flourishing section in each country, but 
the plan was to have sufficient interest to get the Com 
mittee together on matters relating to the more important 
phases of international bird protection, and also- by the 
printing of an occasional report acquaint the people with 
what is being done in countries other than their own. 
The Bulletin .just issued by the Committee contains 
accounts of the present state of bird protection in Aus- 
tralia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain 
Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, South Africa, Sweden. 
Switzerland, and the United States of America. The 
accounts are contributed by well-known ornithologists of 
the respective countries. 
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OBITUARY. 
Members of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club will 
learn with regret of the death of Dr. F. Hamilton Kenny 
at his residence, at Crow’s Nest, on the 5th May. The 
late Dr. Kenny, who was 67 years of age, was born i»; 
Norfolk (England), graduated in medicine at the Royal 
College of Surgeons, London, and came to Victoria as a 
young man, where he started private practice. He also 
spent some time in Western Australia before coming to 
Queensland. During a visit to Gympie in 1907 members 
of the Club were entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Kenny, he 
being at that time Superintendent of the Gympie Hospital 
lie was a keen all-round naturalist, and a genuine lover 
of nature. Not long before his death he wrote me that 
all nature had always given him a distinct thrill of 
pleasure. His first studies in natural history in Australia 
were with birds, and he made a fine collection of skins, 
which he donated to the Queensland Museum. In later 
years he still retained an active interest in bird life, and 
wrote a very readable account of the birds of the Gayndah 
district, which was printed in this magazine for July, 
1917. Plants, however, claimed his chief inttrest, and he 
was one of the best amateur botanists in the State. 
During the war he served as a Lieutenant-Surgeon in the 
Australian navy, and while on active service in New 
Guinea sent a paper on the natural history around Rabaul. 
This was read at one of the Club’s meetings, but was not 
published. C. T. WHITE. 
