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and social life of the students; in the work of the Y. M. C. A., and 

 all missionary enterprises, both local and foreign. 



It is most difficult to speak of him personally, because of the 

 difficulty of doing so adequately. Those who knew Dr. Bailey must 

 have been impressed above all by his kind and gentle manner, his 

 extreme modesty, and upright manhood. I have on various occa- 

 sions observed the warmth of friendship arising from a single 

 meeting. He inspired confidence and good will. 



The following eulogy is quoted from a brief tribute in the Coe 

 College Courier at the time of his death: 



"Professor Bailey was a prince among men, outstanding and apart 

 in the simplicity, genuineness, and the essential goodness of his 

 character; as gentle in manner as the birds he loved, and yet with- 

 out compromise on questions of principle. Measured by the loftiest 

 Christian standards he deserved to be called great, for truly he 

 was ' the servant of all.' " 



Bert Heald Bailey was born on May 2, 1875, at Farley, Dubuque 

 County, Iowa. His parents were Rev. Turner S. Bailey, D.D., and 

 Helen Mar (Gee) Bailey. As a babe he was taken by his parents 

 to Ohio,, but they returned in 1877 to Carroll, Iowa. In 1887 the 

 family removed to Cedar Rapids, where he grew to manhood. His 

 schooling began in Carroll, and was continued in Cedar Rapids 

 until 1890. From 1890 to 1893 he attended Coe Academy. Of his 

 four undergraduate years three were spent at Coe College and 

 one at the State University, he being graduated, however, from the 

 former institution. In 1900 he graduated from Rush Medical Col- 

 lege. In the same year he received the master's degree from Coe 

 College, for a thesis in the bacteriological field. Following this 

 graduation he entered the faculty of Coe College as Head of the 

 Department of Zoology, and also became the Curator of the Mu- 

 seum. 



During the year preceding his death he held the Senior Fellow- 

 ship at the University of Iowa, and was here bringing together 

 the results of his researches, especially on the food and distribu- 

 tion of the hawks and owls of the State; and this work was to be 

 the basis of a thesis for the doctor's degree. In the spring of the 

 year he became afflicted with a malady which his physicians were 

 unable to diagnose. This depressing uncertainty continued until 

 a few days before his death, which occurred on June 22, 1917. The 

 cause of death was an abcess of the spleen. The deceased Is sur- 

 vived by his widow and three daughters. 



He was a member of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, of the American Ornithologist's Union (1913), of 

 the Wilson Ornithological Club (1913), of the American Associa- 



