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whose untiiuoly dfalli mI Wiiycross, Georgia, July 1."'.. ISSJi. wiiilf stiidyiii;,' 

 (ho fishes of soiitliciii swjiiups for the ITiiited States Fisli ( '(niimission. 

 just as he was eiiterliij,' upon wliat promised to lie a brilliant scicutilic 

 career, was a great hiss to /.(.ologlcal science; (J. O. Williamson of .Muncie; 

 W. A. Millis. now the able president of Hanover College: ("liasc ( ». DnI'.ois. 

 now prominent as a superintendent of seliools in Illinois: W. W. Xoiman. 

 afterward professor of zoology in DePauw Fniversity and tlic I iiivcrsity of 

 Texas, whose untimely death at Woods Hole. Mass.. in tiic suniitici- of l.S!>4, 

 was a severe loss to Anu-rican science: Kohert .1. Aley. now liie energetic 

 president of the University of Maine; and Joseph Swain now llie able presi- 

 dent of Swarthmore College. \or must I fail to mention Miss Aniue Tnniei- 

 of Fdoomington who aided us materially in our collecting. All of lliese were 

 then enthusiastic students of birds and all would no doubt ha\-e atlained dis 

 tinction in ornithological studies, had not the Fates east their lines in other 

 fields. 



Vico County. 



"While residing at Terre Haute from July. ISSti. to July. ISOl. our interest 

 in ornithology continued an(i we were able to pay considerable attention 

 to the birds of the region within a radius of some 20 miles of Terre Haute. 

 During the school year it was my custom to spend Saturday of each weeli 

 somewhere in tlie country, a practice which was IvOpt up regardless of 

 weather conditions; rain, storm and snow were never permitted to interfere. 

 TTsually accompanied by one or ukuc of my students, I would drive afield 

 early every Saturday morning, .spend the day in woodland, along some stream, 

 or in and about some pond or swamp, returning home late in the evening, or 

 frequently not until the next day. The late Dr. Josiah T. Scovell. an all- 

 round naturalist, was my companion on hundreds of trips, and a more 

 delightful companion, or one more enthusiastically and intelligently inter- 

 ested in all nature, no one ever had. Dr. Scovell's interests were many. 

 Indian mounds, old river channels, the evidences of glacial action, the geol- 

 ogy of the region, the soils, building stone, coal mines, oil, the topographic 

 features of the county, — in short, everything geologic, geographic, topo- 

 graphic, hydrographic, and climatic, interested him ; and his knowledge of 

 these subjects was such as enabled him to discuss them all intelligently and 

 interestingly. He was also a good botanist and a fair zoolo.gist, especially 

 Interested in ecological relations. In systematic zoolog.v lie perhaps knew 

 most about the freshwater mussels (the Unionidfe). but he also knew a 

 good deal about the local birds. The hundreds of trips I took with Dr. 

 Scovell over Vigo County I look back upon as among the most delightful of 

 my life. 



Among my students who took special interest in these trips I may be 

 permitted to mention a few : Ulysses O, Cox, for many .vears head of the 

 department of biology and dean in the Indiana State Normal School whose 

 untimely death at Denver. Colorado, August 20. litJO, took from the faculty 

 of that institution one of its ablest, most useful and best loved members; 

 J. RoUin Slonaker. a boyhood chum of Cox, now assistant professor of 

 physiology in Stanford University; L. J. Kettger. now head of the depart- 

 ment of physiology in the Indiana State Normal School ; D. C. Ridgley, now 



