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Obituary . 
[Ibis, 
the ‘Zoologist 5 (1906, p. 41) will be found a very good 
summary of his observations on this rare and elusive 
bird. 
In addition to his publications on birds, Mr. Fowler wrote 
extensively on the social and religious lives of Romans. 
His best-known works were perhaps his i Social Life at Rome’ 
and his studies of Cicero and Virgil, which brought him a 
considerable reputation as a classical student. He was a 
most interesting and arresting lecturer, and had a supreme 
gift of describing an observation so that it both illuminated 
and fixed on the mind some far-reaching conclusion. 
Mr. Warde Fowler was elected a member of the Union in 
1887, and remained a member until 1919 when he resigned. 
He did not contribute to e The Ibis,’ but published most of 
his papers, describing his observations, in the pages of the 
‘ Zoologist 5 between 1893 and 1908. 
Alphonse Dubois. 
From the last number of the ‘ Gerfaut 5 we learn of the 
lamented death of Dr. A. Dubois, the doyen of Belgian 
ornithologists, which occurred at his villa at Coxyde-sur- 
Mer, where he has been living since he retired from his post 
in the Royal Museum of Natural History of Brussels, and 
where he remained throughout the duration of war, as 
Coxyde is in the corner of Belgium that was never occupied 
by the German forces. 
Alphonse Dubois was born in 1839 at Aix-la-Chapelle, 
but his father, Charles Frederic Dubois, also a well-known 
naturalist, moved to Brussels in the following year, and 
Alphonse lived the greater part of his life in that city ; here 
he was educated, and obtained a diploma of Doctor of 
Medicine at the Free University of the city. In 1869 he 
was appointed Conservator of the section of the higher 
Vertebrates at the Royal Museum of Natural History, with 
which institution he remained connected until his retire¬ 
ment just previous to the outbreak of the war, 
