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from the University of Michigan in 1896 with the degree of LL.B., 

 receiving his LL.M. the following year. In the latter part of 1897 

 he was admitted to the bar of Michigan and entered the practice of 

 law in Detroit. In 1898 he went to Pasadena, Calif., to engage in 

 his profession, but was forced by ill health to return east later in the 

 same year. 



Mr. Swales' interest in birds began early in life, his first published 

 paper appearing in 1889 when he was only 14 years of age. His 

 complete bibliography of ornithological papers numbers just over 

 a hundred titles, a large proportion of them relating to the birds of 

 his native State of Michigan. From 1914 he was a member of the 

 governing board of the zoological museum at Ann Arbor, and for 

 some years was honorary assistant in ornithology. In 1918 he was 

 appointed honorary custodian of the section of birds' eggs of the 

 National Museum, and in 1921 was made honorary assistant curator 

 of birds. He contributed to the Institution a fund laiown as the 

 Swales fund, through which were added to the Museum's collections 

 man}'^ genera and species of rare foreign birds. For several years he 

 studied the birds of Haiti, and at the time of his death, had partly 

 completed a work on the ornithology of that island undertaken 

 jointly with Dr. Alexander Wetmore. 



Mr. Swales was a member of many ornithological and natural his- 

 tory societies, and was a founder of the Baird Ornithological Club of 

 Washington, D. C. 



JOSEPH MACE 



Joseph Mace, driver of the Smithsonian freight wagon for over 

 50 years, died on January 26, 1928. Mr. Mace served the Institution 

 faithfully and with quiet loyalty under all five of its secretaries — 

 Henry, Baird, Langley, Walcott, and Abbot — and his devotion to 

 duty merits the highest praise. 



Respectfully submitted. 



C. G. Abbot, Secretary. 



