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true bird lover. His place will be difficult to fill. The writer con- 

 siders it an honor to have known such a noble character, and on 

 future excursions through woods, fields and meadows, where he and 

 I so often tramped together, the memory of the pure thoughts, his 

 genial companionship will not soon be forgotten. 



Mr. Brownson was admitted to the Society as an active mem- 

 ber by the Council in September, 1902. He was elected associate 

 editor in November, 1904, but was induced to act as editor, the lat- 

 ter officer declining to serve. He was elected as associate of the 

 A. O. U. in 1903, and contributed four notes to the Auk. To the 

 Journal he contributed articles, editorials and reviews, numbering 

 seventy-five, furnished data to fourteen Migration Reports (not 

 included in the former) and conducted the Christmas bird census 

 since December, 1906. 



His articles in the Advertiser began to appear during the spring 

 of 1902, running weekly until the close of the migration in the fall of 

 1907, then irregularly until the winter of 1908-1909, when three ap- 

 peared. His last article was the editorial of the September Journal. 

 He also contributed an illustrated article on birds to the defunct 

 Pine Tree Magazine. His lectures were numerous. 



IvOUIS E. L,EGGE. 



Reprint of Some of the Ornithological Papers of 

 Sylvester B. Beckett. 



By A. H. Norton, Portland. 

 (Continued from page 70.) 



SIXTH PAPER. 



Portland Daily Advertiser, April 6, 1858. 

 At the last meeting of the Society of Natural History, Mr. S. B. 

 Beckett read a paper on Sparrow^s. The Sparrows, he said, belong 

 to different genera of the Finch family of birds, and the several spe- 

 cies were variously called Buntings and Finches, as well as Sparrows. 

 The species that visit our section bear a close resemblance to each 



