DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. G9 



La Rue K. Holmes, a promising j'oung ornithologist of Sum- 

 mit, N. J., and for some years past a Corresponding Member of 

 he Club, died at the home of his parents on May 10, 1906. 

 He was born December 2, 1883, and was always deeply inter- 

 ested in the study of nature. He was a painstaking and reliable 

 observer, and was soon looked upon as an authority on the 

 ornitholog}' of his vicinitj'. He generously furnished any data 

 that he could contribute toward such work as the Club from 

 time to time carried on relative to migration and geographic 

 distribution, and prepared for the 1904 Cassini.\ an admirable 

 paper on the Short-billed Marsh Wren. 



Mr. Holmes had recently' been appointed an Assistant Curator 

 in the American Museum of Natural History, and his career 

 was full of premise. 



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Through an oversight the notice of the death of Prof. Thomas 

 G.Gentr}', which occurred at his home in Philadelphia, March 12, 

 1905, was omitted from the last Cassinia. Prof. Gentry was 

 born in Philadelphia, February 28, 1843, and had a long and 

 important career as teacher in the public schools of the cit}', 

 being at the time of his death a supervising principal. He was 

 always a student of nature and a collector of specimens and 

 curiosities. For some years his interest centered upon ornithol- 

 ogy, and he published three works upon this subject, the 

 "Life Histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania," 2 vols., 

 187(5 and 1877; "The House Sparrow at Home and Abroad," 

 1878, and "Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States," 

 1880-82. 



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The Club was represented at the twenty-fourth Congress of 

 the A. O. U. in Washington, D. C, by Messrs. Baily, Pennock, 

 Rhoads, Keim and Stone, while Messrs. Miller and Todd, of 

 the correspondents; were present. 



Mr. Baily exhibited a number of excellent slides of birds 

 from life, and Mr. Rhoads presented an interesting jjaper on 

 " Delaware Valley Wild Fowl — Past and Present." 



