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In relation to his memory we must quote again from his de- 

 voted daughter : 



"Few men have his quickness of retort and very few his mar- 

 velous memory. Everything he had ever seen or done was photo- 

 graphed there and kept forever. I have known him. without the 

 aid of any notes, to enumerate over two thousand Ruffed Grouse 

 which he had killed, for each one of which he could recall the place 

 and circumstances. ... It was this memory, which enabled 

 him to bring forward a great number of perfectly definite facts to 

 generalize upon, that made his observations so unique. All his 

 facts were his own. He did not quote other men's books. He 

 knew the books, usually very well, and he could cite page and vol- 

 ume when required to do so, but everything he said or wrote was 

 original." 



As a man he was genial in his intercourse with men and with a 

 keen sense of humor ; steadfast and energetic in his purposes ; gen- 

 erous toward all mankind ; charitable in every way toward the un- 

 fortunate, giving freely and quietly ; modest in all well-doing, and 

 zealous for truth and justice. 



An Observation of the Development of the Social 

 Instinct in Cedar Waxwings. 



By Caroline M. Stevens. 

 In "Birds of Laysan and the Leeward Islands," Mr. Walter K. 

 Fisher gives an account of a most remarkable "dance" indulged in 

 by the Laysan Albatrosses. It is a long and complicated perform- 

 ance by any two birds, with bowing and circling and fencing, tuck- 

 ing their heads under uplifted wings, snapping bills, tiptoeing, 

 groaning, and so on, always in dignified and regular succession. 

 Mr. Fisher counts it not courtship, since it is carried on through- 

 out the birds' residence of about ten months on the island, but 

 rather an amusement, an extraordinary development of the social 

 instinct. Mr. Henry L. Ward, in an account of a Herring Gull 



