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the War Office asking that, if possible, the Territorial 
Manoeuvres proposed to be held in the New Forest during 
May and June should be postponed until a later date, owing 
to the disturbance that would be caused to the fauna at 
that season of the year. This was agreed to. 
A vote of thanks to the Zoological Society of London for 
the use of their Office during the past year was unanimously 
passed, and the Meeting was adjourned. 
After the Meeting the Annual Dinner was held, in con¬ 
junction with the monthly Dinner of the British Ornitholo¬ 
gist's Club, at Pagani’s Restaurant, Great Portland Street. 
XXII. — Obituary. 
Dr. A. B. Meyer, Dr. Carl Parrot, and 
Mr. W. E. D. Scott. 
Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer. 
Adolf Bernhard Meyer, whose death at Berlin took 
place on February 5th last, was born in Hamburg in 
1840. He studied Medicine and Natural Science in the 
University of Berlin, and commenced his remarkable career 
as a scientific traveller and naturalist early in life, devoting 
himself specially to the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, 
where he made many brilliant discoveries. In 1870 he 
commenced his explorations in Celebes and passed on 
thence to the Philippine Islands and New Guinea, where 
he ascended the Arfak Mountains and made a large col¬ 
lection of Birds. Returning to Germany in 1874, Meyer 
was appointed Director of the Royal Museum of Zoology, 
Anthropology, and Ethnography at Dresden. In this 
position he remained for the next thirty years, and made 
his Museum famous throughout the scientific world for 
its excellent organization and valuable contents. During 
