1921 .] Obituary. 151 
years chairman of the Huddersfield Conservative Association. 
He was elected a member of the Union in 1898, but his 
interest in ornithology was purely that of an amateur. 
He was a keen observer of bird-life, and had made in his 
younger days a very fine collection of British Birds'* eggs. 
He was also a collector of books on all subjects relating to 
ornithology and natural history. 
George Wyman Bury. 
The ornithological exploration of south-western Arabia 
must always be associated with the name of Lieut. G. Wyman 
Bury, R.N.V.R., whose recent death at Helouan, near Cairo, 
at the age of 46, we regret to learn from the pages of the 
4 Times.’ 
Bury was born at Mancetter Manor House in Warwick¬ 
shire, and was educated at Atherstone Grammar School and 
at Army crammers. In 1894 he received a commission in the 
3 rd Batt. R. Warwick Regt. ; in the following year he was 
in southern Morocco with the rebel tribes. During the next 
six or seven years he was in the Aden hinterland and other 
parts of southern Arabia, making archaeological and zoological 
investigations and acquiring a wonderful knowledge of the 
Arab tribes. He was political officer at Aden in 1903-4. 
On the outbreak of the war he joined the Intelligence Staff 
on the Egyptian front, and later on was attached to the 
Red Sea Patrol. 
His first ornithological collections were made in 1899 -1900, 
when he was attached to the expedition under the leadership 
of Messrs. W. Dodson and A. B. Percival for the exploration 
of the hinterland of Aden, the results of which were worked 
out by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant and published in 4 Novitates Zoo¬ 
logies 9 (vol. vii. 1900, pp. 243-266). Further collections of 
birds were made by him in the following year when attached 
to an Austrian expedition which visited south-eastern Arabia 
for archaeological investigation. The account of the birds 
then collected was published in the 4 Journ. ftir Ornithologie 9 
of 1Q01 by Messrs. L. von Lorentz and C. E. Hellmayr. 
