JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 5 1 



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A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. X Published June 1, 1908 No. 2 



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Prof. Leslie Alexander Lee, of Bowdoin College, President of 

 the Maine Ornithological Society for the past four years, was taken 

 suddenly ill at his home in Brunswick with intestinal trouble and 

 was brought to the Maine General Hospital in Portland on Sunday, 

 May 17th. After undergoing an operation, he died on the morning 

 of May 20th. Prof. Lee was born at Woodstock, Vermont, in 1852, 

 the son of John Stebbins Lee, LL.D., the first President of St. 

 Lawrence University, Canton, New York. Prof. Lee graduated 

 from that institution in 1872. After post-graduate study at Har- 

 vard, and several years of teaching in academies, he went to 

 Bowdoin College in 1876 as instructor in natural history. In 1881 

 he was made professor of geology and biology, retaining this posi- 

 tion until his death. He has been connected with the United States 

 Fish Commission, has made a voyage to San Francisco for scientific 

 investigation, paying special attention to Patagonia, and the Straits 

 of Magellan on the way. In 1891 he organized an^ important 

 expedition to Labrador. At his death he was President of the 

 Maine Ornithological Society and the Portland Society of Natural 

 History. He was a member of the American Society of Naturalists, 

 the American Morphological Society, and the Beta Theta Pi and 

 Phi Beta Kappa fraternities. He was the organizer and chairman 

 of the Topographical Survey Commission of Maine, and State 

 Geologist. 



Prof. Lee will be sorely missed by the active members of the 

 Maine Ornithological Society. While he was President he never 

 missed a meeting, and was always ready to help the Society to the 

 extent of his great ability. He contributed freely of his private 



