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not form a part of the scientific name of any species, but, 
when added, is merely for convenience of reference. 
(2) That in the case of the names of all well-known species 
the “ authority ” is quite unnecessary and may be altogether 
omitted. 
XV.— Obituary. 
Mr. W. H. Hudleston. 
It is but three months since the four surviving Original 
Members still on the List of the B.O.U. were presented with 
Commemorative Medals, and already one has passed from our 
midst, for we have now to announce, with the greatest 
regret, the death of Mr. W. H. Hudleston. The following 
paragraphs are extracted from the full “ Life ” which he 
himself wrote last year for the Jubilee Supplement:— 
Previous to April 1867 Hudleston was known as Wilfrid 
Hudleston Simpson, and it was whilst bearing this name 
that most of his ornithological work was done. He was 
born at York on the 2nd June, 1828, and spent the years 
from 1838 to 1843 at the Collegiate School in that city, now 
St. Peter's School. Those were the days before scientific 
farming had reduced our fences, and there was a fine field 
for the bird's-nester. 
In 1843 young Simpson went to Uppingham School, being 
then J5 years of age. Here, for three successive seasons, 
he indulged in his favourite pursuit in a locality which at 
that time was certainly favourable to ornithological rambles. 
Kites had only just disappeared from those large woods 
which were remnants of the old forest of Rockingham, but 
some of the local eggs were still preserved in Belks 
collection. 
The scene now shifts to Cambridge, when the glories of 
Penland were already in a transition state. The seasons of 
1847, 1848, and 1849 are those with which we have to 
deal. Simpson spent no small part of his time during the 
spring months in fen localities, and the area of his operations 
extended from Whittlesey Mere, on the west, to the fens of 
