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year appeared his ‘ Wonders of the Bird World/ containing 
the gist of the popular lectures given by him in different 
parts of the country, which, illustrated, by lantern-slides 
designed, by Keulemans, never failed to delight large 
audiences. 
Nor should we omit to notice here his edition of White’s 
‘ Selborne/ which appeared in two volumes in 1900. His 
knowledge of the locality, where at one time he had a 
residence, and the ornithological observations which he made 
there, enabled, him to supply many editorial notes of interest. 
For his sake, it is to be regretted that this work is disfigured 
by a number of full-page plates which are anything but 
artistic, and in many cases are grotesque. For this ill- 
fortune, however, he was not responsible. 
To give here a list of the numerous papers contributed 
by Sharpe to scientific periodicals would be impossible in 
the space at my disposal. Suffice it to say that in the pages 
of the ‘Ibis/ the ‘ Journal of the Linnean Society/ the 
‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ the e Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History/ and even in foreign publica¬ 
tions, such as the ‘ Bulletin’ of the Zoological Society of 
France, and the 4 Mittheilungen 3 of the Royal Zoological 
Museum of Dresden, as well as in the ‘ Notes from the 
Leyden Museum/ will be found an extraordinary number of 
contributions from his pen, many of which are of con¬ 
siderable scientific importance. 
Reference to ‘ The Ibis 3 recalls the fact that Sharpe 
was elected a member of the British Ornithologists’ Union 
in 1871, from which date to the time of his death he 
was one of the most active and energetic supporters of its 
objects, as well as one of the most frequent contributors to 
{ The Ibis/ The British Ornithologists’ Club, to which 
only members of the Union are eligible, may be said to 
have been founded by Sharpe, for it was at his instigation 
and encouragement that they perceived the advantages that 
would arise from evening meetings, held once a month, for 
the discussion of subjects of general interest in the bird- 
world, and the exhibition of rare or little-known specimens 
