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Graduating with the engineering class of the Sheffield School 

 of Yale in 1901, he later became Secretary of the Sheffield Branch 

 of the Y. M. C. A. at New Haven, Conn. In 1902 he took up 

 the mercantile calling and acted as a traveling salesman for two 

 years. During the summer of 1905 he received an appointment 

 with the Biological Survey and collected that season in California. 

 February 1, 1906, he joined the staff of the Field Museum of Chi- 

 cago, under Prof. Chas. B. Cory, curator of the Department of 

 Zoology, which institution he served faithfully and well up to 

 the time of his death. 



His museum experience being the longest was perhaps most 

 prolific of results, several trips of some duration being planned 

 and executed by him during that time, chief among which may be 

 mentioned an expedition to Central America and northern South 

 America during the winter of 1907-'08. 



This was followed the succeeding year by another to the islands 

 of the Caribbean Sea, which proved unusually successful, adding 

 several novelties new to science among the birds, a honey creeper, 

 Coereba ferryi, being named by Prof. Cory in honor of the 

 collector. 



The readers of the Bulletin will remember the subject of this 

 sketch by the very excellent paper of his, "The Spring Migration 

 of 1907 in the Vicinity of Chicago," appearing in the March 

 number of 1908. Additional articles have been published by him 

 in "The Auk" and "The Condor," and at the time of his death he 

 was working out a paper based upon the results of the Costa 

 Rican, or Central American, trip previously mentioned. Tall in 

 stature and of a dignified and courteous bearing, Mr. Ferry 

 united to these an amiable turn of mind. He was a young man of 

 exemplary habits and high ideals, and bid fair to achieve distinc- 

 tion as well in the science of birds. His loss to Illinois and to 

 ornithology, therefore, will be keenly felt. 



'Reprinted from The Wilson Bulletin XXII, No. 1, March, 1910. 



