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night oil. His output of shorter papers continued at a somewhat 

 reduced rate, but was still varied in character. During his last years 

 he was occupied chiefly with a large work involving much biblio- 

 graphic search and much handling of material. This was his East 

 A.frican Mammals in the United States National Museum, which 

 appeared in three volumes in 1918, 1919, and 1923, respectively. It 

 was his most important contribution to mammalogy. Ostensibly a 

 report on the East African collections made by Theodore Roosevelt, 

 Paul Rainey, and others, it was in reality a full resume of the his- 

 tory, nomenclature, and relationships of one of the largest (prob- 

 ably the very largest) mammal faunas now existing. With the 

 possible exception of his good Avife, no one knows the amount of 

 fidelity and care he devoted to this nor under what difficulties it 

 was done. 



His full bibliography appears at the end of this article. It 

 may be said here only that it comprises well OA'er 150 titles, im- 

 portant among which ai'e: The Birds of Wisconsin (1903), A 

 Systematic Synopsis of the Muskrats (1911), Mammals of the 

 Philippine Islands (1911), Mammals of the Alpine Club Expedi- 

 tion to Mount Robson (1913), Mammals Collected by the Smith- 

 sonian-Harvard Expedition to the Altai Mountains (1913), A Sys- 

 tematic Account of the Grasshopper Mice (1914), and East African 

 IMammals in the United States National Museum (1918-1919- 

 1923). In the course of his field work, he collected the type speci- 

 mens of 20 mammals, and the new mammals named by him total 1G2. 



Mr. Hollister was a member of various scientific societies, many of 

 which saw fit to honor him with office as well as to avail themselves of 

 his most capable services. He was for a time an associate editor of 

 the Journal of the Washington Academ}^ of Sciences, having served 

 his apprenticeship on the publication committee of the Biological 

 Society of Washington. In 1921 the Biological Society elected him 

 its president, and his name was thus added to a roster of presidents 

 including most of the leading zoologists and botanists who have 

 lived in Washington during the past half century. He was a cor- 

 responding member of the Zoological Society of London. He was 

 one of the signers of the original call for the organization of the 

 American Society of Mammalogists, and one of the principal par- 

 ticipants in its actual launching. At the first meeting in April, 

 1919, discussion quicklj'^ focussed on whether or not Hollister would 

 or could find the time to serve gratuitousl}^ as editor of the Journal. 

 He would, and he could, and he did with such results as all of us 

 have seen, in the faultlessly neat, accurate, and scholarly journal 

 Avhich he has produced for us for the critical period of the first 

 five 5'ears of the society's existence. That it was no small burden to 



