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1921.1 
the Audubon Societies in each State of the Union, and is 
besides, through the energy and enthusiasm of its President, 
possessed of ample means, which are devoted to the main¬ 
tenance of special bird-reserves, to work among* the schools 
and school-children, and to propaganda and the guiding of 
the legislatures in the various States of the Union in regard 
to the protection and conservation of w r i!d life. 
Mr.Dutcher was a Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union and a Member of their Council. 
Ho bert Etheridge. 
Mr. Robert Etheridge, the son of the distinguished 
geologist and palaeontologist of the same name, died after a 
short attack of pneumonia at Colo Yale, near Sydney, on 
the 4th of January of last year. He was elected a Member 
of the Union in 1914. 
Born in 1847 in England, he early took up geological work 
in Australia in the middle sixties. He returned to England 
and was for a short time, together with his father, on the 
staff of the Geological Department of the Natural History 
Museum. In 1887 he went back to Australia as palaeonto¬ 
logist to the Geological Survey of New South Wales and to 
the Australian Museum at Sydney, of which latter institution 
he subsequently became Director. His scientific work and 
publications were, we believe, entirely concerned with geology 
and palaeontology, and his interest in ornithology was purely 
that of an amateur. 
John Gerrard. 
John Gerrard, F.G.S., M.B.O.U., who died at the age of 
70 at his residence at Worsley, Lancashire, on 28 July last, 
was born at luce Hall in the heart of the Lancashire colliery 
district, and inherited from his father, a mining engineer, 
some of the gifts which proved so useful during his long 
life of practical experiment and investigation. He was 
educated at Wigan Grammar School, and entered the 
service first of the Ince Hall and then of the St. Helens 
