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him there can be no doubt. At a special meetinji; of the directors of 

 the society held November 20, 1924, a brief memorial resolution was 

 adopted, and it may be ventured that no board of directors ever 

 passed a similar resolution in which the literal sentiments expressed 

 were more keenly felt by every member. It is us follows : 



In the death of Ned Hollister, charter member and editor of our Jouraal 

 since its establishment, the American Society of Mammalogists has sustained 

 an irreparable loss. But most of all each of us mourns the departure of a warm 

 personal friend. We shall Ions miss him for his congenial companionship, his 

 ready helpfulness, his unvarying patience, his keen intellect, his scientific skill, 

 his sterling worth. Therefore we, representatives of the society, hereby record 

 our deep grief in the loss of our friend and coworker, and our keen appreciation 

 of his rare qualities as a scientist and as a man ; and we extend to his bereaved 

 widow, his mother, his brothers and sister, our heartfelt sympathy in the greater 

 sorrow which is theirs. 



No further summary of his character and achievements seems nec- 

 essary. A man loved, respected, and honored has gone from a small 

 compan3^ It is, indeed, a very small company, for if we take stock 

 of ourselves, w^e can not but realize how few are the real students of 

 mammals. The type represented by Ned Hollister is one which, 

 under present economic and social conditions in this country, seems 

 threatened Avith extinction while yet the need for it continues to be 

 very great. Therefore, his passing before his time is the more to 

 be regretted. We mourn a genial friend beloved for his attractive 

 human qualities, and we deplore the absence of a colleague of trained 

 ability; but, when we look for his like among the coming generation, 

 we are brought to the distressing realization that this is not all, for 

 no one stands ready to fill the gap in the ranks. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NED HOLLISTER, 1892-1925 2 



Hollister's first paper, The House Sparrow in America, was pub- 

 lished in 1892, his last, A Modern Menagerie: More about the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park, appeared in 1925, nearly a year after his 

 death. The total number of titles that I have been able to find is 

 165. Preparing this list has been made easy by the systematic and 

 careful manner in which all of the articles up to the end of 1922 had 

 been catalogued and bound by their author. These bound volumes, 

 through Mrs. Hollister's kindness, are now at my disposal. Without 

 them it would have been nearly impossible to find many of the 

 earlier printed notes so important to an understanding of the writer's 

 later development. In these short articles written by the boy of 16 

 to 20 years we already see that combination of enthusiasm and clear 

 judgment which afterward became the main characteristic of the 

 trained zoologist. " Floridan Races," printed in The Oologist of 



= Prepared by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. 



