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velles Archives du Museum/ chiefly relating to Pere Armand 
David's discoveries in China, in the * Revue Zoologique/ the 
f Proceedings 3 of the Zoological Society of London, of which 
Society he was a Corresponding Member, and the f Bul¬ 
letin 3 of the Acclimatization Society of Paris. 
We understand that the whole of Verreaux's collection of 
Nectariniidae, as well as his manuscripts and a considerable 
portion of his library, have passed into the Paris Museum, 
than which no fitter destination could be wished. 
By the death of Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt-Drake, at the early 
age of thirty, we have lost another contributor to the pages of 
this Journal. Though Mr. Tyrwhitt-Drake wrote two very 
useful papers on the ornithology of Morocco*, his name will 
ever be best known from his connexion with the Palestine- 
Exploration Society, with whose aims and objects he worked 
with the greatest sympathy and zeal. Mr. Drake was for 
some time a member of Trinity College, Cambridge; but, owing 
to his health compelling him to pass each winter in a southern 
climate, he did not take his degree. The winter of several 
years he spent in Morocco, where he made the collections of 
birds already spoken of. In 1868 he visited Egypt, and in 
the following spring he went to Sinai with the surveying party 
appointed to make the exploration of the Sinaitic peninsula. 
The following year, assisted by a grant from the University 
of Cambridge, he accompanied Prof. Palmer in his exploration 
of the Badiet el Tih, or the “ Wilderness of the Wanderings." 
This was his first connexion with the Palestine Exploration 
Society. After spending some months in this district, Edom 
and Moab, and other places to the eastward of Arabah, were 
traversed. After visiting Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Turkey, 
Mr. Drake returned to England for a short time. He soon, 
however, undertook, under the auspices of the Palestine-Ex- 
ploration Society, the investigation of the inscribed stones of 
Hamath, which have since proved so perplexing to paleogra¬ 
phers. Having accomplished this task he joined Captain 
Burton, then Consul at Damascus, in an expedition to the vol- 
* “ Birds of Tangier and Eastern Morocco,” Ibis, 1867, p. 421, and 
“Further Notes on the Birds of Morocco,” Ibis, 1869, p. 147. 
