Alfred Ednmud Brehm, a German naturalist and traveller, born at Renthendorf, Feb. 2, 1829. He studied under his father, Christian Ludwig Brehm, an eminent ornithologist (1787 -1864). After making zoological collections during five years' travel in Egypt, Nubia, and eastern Soodan, he studied at Jena and Vienna, subsequently visited Spain, Norway, and Lapland, and in 1862 N. Abyssinia, in company with Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was director of the zoological gardens at Hamburg from 1863 to 1867, when he removed to Berlin, where he established the famous aquarium. He wrote Das Leben der Vogel (Glogau, 1860-'61; 2d ed., 1867; English translation, "Bird Life," by H. M. Labouchere and W. Jesse, 4 parts, London, 1872); II-lustrirtes Thierleben (6 vols., Hildburghausen, 1863-'9); and Oefangene Vogel (2 vols., Leip-sic, 1870 et seq.). Among his books of travel are ReisesMzzen aits Nordostafrika (3 vols., Jena, 1855-'63), and Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Habesch (Hamburg, 1863).