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rarities procured in Norfolk, was written by Southwell, and 
forms not only an instructive introduction to the series, but 
also a useful collection of records. 
If there was one subject more than another in which 
Southwell took special interest, it was the protection of birds 
in the close time, and particularly the preservation of such 
species as had their breeding haunts in Norfolk, which, by 
reason of continued persecution and in consequence of the 
reclamation of the waste lands to which they resorted, were 
being brought to the verge of extinction as breeding birds. 
On this subject he wrote much, and effectively, while the 
formation of local societies for the protection of birds in 
restricted areas, as, for example, at Breydon and at Wells, 
always elicited his encouragement and support. For many 
years he was a constant writer in the 4 Zoologist/ and an 
occasional contributor to the Natural History columns of 
the 4 Field/ where his letters and articles, always of an 
informing character, never failed to meet with the apprecia¬ 
tion which they deserved. A long list might be given of his 
papers in the 4 Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists* Society/ many of which were of an archseo- 
logical character and full of curious information. Active- 
minded almost to the last, he was prostrated by a stroke of 
paralysis on August 11th, and lingered until September 5th, 
when he passed peacefully away. His wife having pre¬ 
deceased him in Juty, 1903, he leaves two daughters to 
mourn his loss.—J.E. 11. 
With much regret we have also to record the decease of 
two other distinguished Members of this Union—Dr. H. II. 
Giglioli, of Florence (on Dec. 14th), and Dr. R. Bowdler 
Sharpe, of the British Museum (on Dec. 25th). We pro¬ 
pose to give some account of the Lives and Labours of 
these great ornithologists in our April number. 
