78 The Wilson Blli.etix — Xo. 55. 



"His great |»assi(Hi was lor liirds. wlioso habits and liahitat lie 

 studied with iiuweariod interest. Had he lived he might have won 

 distinction as an ornithologist. Already he had served as curator 

 in the nuiseuni of Natural History, New York, and achieved hon- 

 orable mention for his work in classifying the recent accessions to 

 their department of ornithology. He was also a correspondent ol" 

 the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, and exchanged specimens 

 with them. Though affable and gracious in manner, he was natur- 

 ally reserved and preferred solitude to society. His bereaved 

 mother and father will have the sympathy of this entire community 

 in an affliction which removes their last child and leaves their home 

 without one for whom they lived and labored." — W. W. Giles. 



It is my sad duty to chronicle the death of our fellow member, 

 LaRue K. Holmes, at Sunnnit, N. J., on May 10th, 1906, at the home 

 of his parents, Colonel B. P. and Georgiana K. Holmes. The fol- 

 lowing touching note from the bereaved mother gives the particulars 

 far more fittingly than pen of mine : 



Dear Sir : — Our precious LaRue, recentlj' assistant curator at 

 the Museum of Natural History. New York, entered into rest yes- 

 terday, after intense suffering for foiir months, from rheumatism of 

 the heart, singing a hymn and repeating the Apostles' creed and 

 Lord's I'rayer. Patient lieyond words, almost unspotted by contact 

 with the world, ai'tistic in nature and devoted to the study of his 

 beloved birds, he passed to the spirit world in triumph through Christ. 



Yours, in sorrow, which should be rejoicing. 



Georgiana Klingle Holmes. 



He was elected an associate member of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists T'nion in 1902, and a corresponding member of the Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club in 1904, and his most elaborate paper. 

 "The short-billed Marsh Wren {Cistothorus stellaris) in Eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey," in the Cassinia for 1904, suggests 

 careful and critical research and exceptional ability. 



The writer had the pleasure of meeting him at a gathering of 

 ornithologists in Philadelphia a few years since and found him quiet, 

 affable, enthusiastic, peculiarly attractive, and soon after entering 

 into correspondence with him, induced him to join the Wilson Orni- 

 thological Club as an active member. He contributed an excellent 

 paper entitled "The Sunnner P>irds of Summit, Union County, N. .T.." 

 to the WiLsox P.llletix for March. 190.5. In their Itereavement for 

 this their last child, the sorrowing parents will have the sympathy 

 of all the mendters of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Frank L. Burns. 



