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and has in conversation described the Ivory-billrd Woodpeck- 

 ers and other interesting birds that he saw at this time. 



Mr. Sheppard served on the Ornithological committee of the 

 Academy from 1S72 to 1875. He was deeply interested in 

 everything relating to birds and joined the Club the year after 

 its organization. While a frequent attendant at the earlier 

 meetings, failing health prevented him from taking any active 

 part in its work of late years. 



Some of the best known of Mr. Sheppard' s ornithological 

 ilhistrations are to be found in Baird, Brewer and Ridgway'e 

 " History of North American Birds," Trumbull's "Common 

 Names of Game Birds," and Elliot's volumes on "Shore 

 Birds," "Ducks and Geese," etc. Dr. Coues once said of him: 

 "he has drawn more and better illustrations of North American 

 birds than any artist now living," which was true at the time 

 he wrote. Mr. Sheppard was well acquainted with Dr. Thomas 

 B. Wilson, John Cassin and other ornithologists of their day 

 and has described to me with much enthusiasm a meeting he 

 once had with John W. Audubon. W. S. 



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Walter D. Bush, a Corresponding member of the Club, died 

 at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 11, 1904. 

 Mr. Bush was elected in 1898, and though he was able to attend 

 but few of our meetings he was ever ready to render assistance 

 to those interested in the ornithology of his native state. In- 

 deed, until quite recently he seems to have been the only one at 

 all familiar with the bird life of Delaware, and had it not been 

 for his modest}' and the engrossing cares of an active iiusiness 

 life his knowledge would have gained him a much more promi- 

 nent position in the ornithological world. 



He was active in securing the passage of the recent law for the 

 protection of birds in Delaware and as Vice-President and 

 President of the Delaware Natural History Society, did much 

 to advance interest in scientific pursuits. As a citizen h^ was 

 prominent in all public enterprises in Wilmington and ' as 

 widely known and respected. 



Mr. Bush was born in Wilmington, August 30, 1851, the son 

 of George W. Bush. He early entered the coal and freight 



