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migrant species which leave the country and are therefore 
exposed in the south to the same persecution. 
It is deeply regrettable that a country so highly esteemed 
as England refuses its moral support in such a noble and 
useful matter, just when this is especially wanted. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
Otto Herman, 
Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithology, 
Budapest, October 12th, 1908. 
Sirs, —I have been invited to write a Life of the late 
Professor Alfred Newton, E.R.S., of Magdalene College, 
Cambridge. If any of your readers, who have letters or 
reminiscences or other interesting information about 
Professor Newton will be kind enough to communicate 
with me, I shall be exceedingly grateful to them. I will, of 
course, undertake to return all letters &c. to the senders. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
A. F. R. Wollaston. 
Savile Club, 
107 Piccadilly, W., 
March 1st, 1909. 
Sirs, —I have received from Mr. Frank Atterbury, 
Repression of Slavery Department, Roseires, Blue Nile, 
an aluminium ring taken off the leg of a Stork (Ciconia 
alba) killed near there on October 30th, 1908. 
The ring, which measures 2§ in. by in. when flattened 
out, is marked “ Vogelwarte, Rossitten 1757, Germania/’ 
Communication with the Rossitten Ornithological Observa¬ 
tory, to which I have returned the ring, has elicited 
from Dr. J. Thienemann the information that the Stork 
No. 1757 was ringed in the nest at Goldap, E. Prussia, in 
July 1908. The exact position of Roseires is 11° 5P 22" 
N. lat.and 34° 23' 10" E. long. 
It will be remembered that the capture of a Rossitten Stork 
(No. 163), ringed at Koslin, in Pomerania, in July 1907, 
and killed at Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia, in December 
