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recently at Simferopol in the Crimea, where he was acting as 
a professor in the so-called “ White University ” What has 
happened to him since the invasion and occupation of the 
Crimea by the Bolshevist forces we have not heard. We 
have no news of Gregory Poliakov or Sergius Alpheraki. 
Baron Loudon, a well-known ornithologist though not on 
our list of members, was robbed and plundered of his 
possessions and driven out of Livonia by the Bolshevists, 
and is now living in Berlin. 
The Editor or Secretary of the Union would be very glad 
of any further information in regard to the fate of our 
unfortunate Eellow-lbises in Bussia. 
Personalia. 
Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, M.A., B.Ch., D.S.Q., M.B.O.U., 
has recently been elected to a Fellowship of King’s College, 
Cambridge. Mr. Wollaston is well known to us for his 
explorations, both geographical and ornithological, of 
Ruwenzori and Dutch New Guinea, and is now organizing 
another expedition to the latter. He has recently completed 
a life of the late Professor Alfred Newton. 
Mr. N. B. Kinnear, M.B.O.U., has recently been ap¬ 
pointed a First Class Assistant in the Natural History 
Museum, and is working in the bird-room under Dr. P. 
R. Lowe. 
Capt. Hubert Lynes, C.B., C.M.G., R.N., who spent 
some months last winter in Dafur, has recently returned 
there accompanied by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe. He pro¬ 
poses to spend at least eighteen months in the Sudan 
collecting birds and making observations. He will also 
devote some of his time to other branches of Natural 
History. 
Air. George L. Bates of Cameroon fame, who has been 
in England for some months during the past season, has 
returned to Bitye in southern Cameroon, and hopes to make 
further explorations in Nigeria as well as in Cameroon* 
