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in height of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and tlie Atlantic 

 Ocean. In October, 1848, he presented 119 bird skins to the 

 Academy. In May, 1857, he read some notes on the beaver, 

 observed in the Yellowstone region. In June, 1858, he wrote 

 a letter to the Academy from St. Croix River, describing a cer- 

 tain species of trout — Salmo gloverii. 



His name does not appear again until five years later, when 

 on June 9, 1863, at a meeting of the Academj', Mr. Cassin 

 announced the death at Moorestown, New Jersey, of the late 

 member, Edward Harris, aged 64 years. 



The Academy records show him to have been a member of 

 the Committee on Zoology from 1842 to 1848, and of the Com- 

 mittee on Ornithology from 1849 to 1856. Excepting as a 

 member of these committees he seems never to have served the 

 Academy in any official capacity. 



As has before been said, Mr. Harris was a traveler of large 

 experience. He made several trips to Europe, while his 

 journals and letters show him to have had a thorough personal 

 knowledge of his own country at a time when travel was a 

 much more serious problem than at the present day. 



His scientific notes made in New England and the Middle 

 States are extremely interesting. In 1837 he went upon a trip 

 through the South with Audubon, sailing from New York to 

 Charleston, and from there traveling overland through the 

 South Atlantic and Gulf States to New Orleans. Mr. Harris's 

 notes on this trip, while verj' entertaining, do not indicate that 

 any important scientific results were achieved. 



In 1843 he went with Audubon, Bell and others upon the 

 famous Missouri River exijedition to the Yellowstone region, 

 the results of which have been to a great extent given to the 

 world by Audubon. 



Evidently Mr. Harris was a keen sportsman. His journals 

 make frequent reference to his work with dog and gun, while 

 he gives interesting narratives of deer hunting in the South and 

 the pursuit of the buftalo in tlie West. In his desire to keep 

 the neighborhood of Moorestown a good shooting ground he 

 frequently released live quail in considerable numbcrt<. His 

 note-books show how many pairs he turned out upon the local 

 farms, and upon wliosc ground they were released. 



