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are the work of his own industrious pencil. The back¬ 
grounds also show great artistic talent, and the colouring, 
executed by the Misses Sharpe, is much to be praised. 
We can scarcely doubt that this series of volumes, which, 
when complete, will contain figures of all the British Birds 
ordinarily met with, will attain great popularity. 
XXXV .—Obituary. 
Dr. E. D. Dickson, C.M.Z.S., Dr. St. George Mivart, 
F.R.S., and Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, F.M.Z.S. 
In 'The Times 5 of March 28tli last we find recorded the 
death on the previous day, at Constantinople, of Edward 
Dalzel Dickson, one of the oldest Corresponding Members 
of the Zoological Society of London, having been elected to 
that honour in 1840. In the first series of the Zoological 
Society's ‘ Proceedings 5 will be found several communications 
from this formerly active correspondent, who, in 1839, in 
conjunction with Mr. H. J. Ross, transmitted to that Society 
numerous specimens of birds obtained in the neighbourhood 
of Erzeroum, where he was then resident (see P. Z. S. 1839, 
pp. 119, 130). These were determined by Louis Fraser, at 
that time Curator of the Society's Museum, and their names 
were recorded in the f Proceedings, 5 accompanied by the col¬ 
lectors' notes. So far as we know, they are still almost the 
only authority on the birds of this high district of Asia 
Minor. Dr. Dickson was for many years Physician to the 
British Embassy at Constantinople, and there made a con¬ 
siderable collection of the fishes of the Bosphorus, which 
Avas presented in 1839 to the British Museum (see P. Z. S. 
1839, p. 135). After retiring from his official post, he 
settled again at Constantinople, and died there on the 27th 
of March last at an “ advanced age." 
Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President of the 
Zoological Society and a Member of the B.O.U. since 1892, 
whose form and voice were familiar to all attendants at 
