(1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings at Levens, Barbon and Ings in Westmorland, and Raughton Head in Cumberland, and was domestic chaplain and secretary to the Bishop of Carlisle from 1921 to 1924. The son of Canon E. B. Savage, his early years on the Isle of Man gave him a love for ships and seafaring folk as well as an interest in birds, and after he was ordained he served as assistant chaplain to the Mersey Mission to Seamen from 1901 to 1914. He married in 1904 Mabel Bertha, daughter of John Edward Cussans, who survives him with one daughter and one son. His holidays were often spent in the Lake District and he came to live there as vicar of Levens in 1914. In spite of his parochial duties and varied interests--he was an authority on Manx Gaelic which he had spoken from childhood, and in earlier years a keen fisherman--Mr. Savage found time to make a thorough study of ornithology and did much useful work. He was elected a member of the British Ornithologist's Union in 1909. He was a delightful and stimu lating companion, loved and respected by people in all walks of life, and, himself an excellent and careful observer, he was always