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Lewis Linpsay Dycune, noted as an explorer and zodlogical collector, 
Professor of Zodlogy at the University of Kansas, and an Associate of the 
American Ornithologists’ Union, died after a week’s illness at Stormont 
Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, on January 20, 1915. 
Professor Dyche was born in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, on March 
20, 1857. His parents removed to Kansas three months later and settled 
on the Wakarusa River near Topeka. He began his education in a country 
school at the age of twelve, then entered the State Normal School at 
Emporia and three years later in 1881 enrolled in the State University at 
Lawrence. Here he came in contact with Dr. Francis H. Snow who seeing 
his strong interest in zodlogy encouraged and aided him in every way pos- 
sible. Professor Dyche graduated from the University in 1884, took the 
degree of Master of Arts in 1886 and Master of Science in 1888. Even 
before his graduation he was made Assistant Professor of Zodlogy. In 
1890 he became curator of birds and mammals in the University Museum 
of Natural History and was made Professor of Zodlogy. Though occupied 
in teaching and lecturing much of his time was given to building up the 
collections of vertebrates in the museum. His energies were devoted 
largely to collecting and mounting groups of large mammals for exhibition 
but birds were not neglected and the bird skins gathered on his expeditions 
form the nucleus of the collections in ornithology at present stored in the 
institution. Notable among his gatherings is a series of skins from Green- 
land. His dreams of a Museum were realized in 1903 when he was given 
a new building on the University Campus in which to house his collections. 
In 1909 Professor Dyche while still retaining his position in the university 
was made State Fish and Game Warden and held that position until the 
time of his death. He was elected an Associate in the Union in 1886. 
Though his observations as a field naturalist were many, his published 
writings are few. He contributed brief notes on the occurrence of certain 
birds in Kansas at various times to ‘The Auk’ and to the ‘ Transactions of 
the Kansas Academy of Science’, and short papers appeared elsewhere.— 
A. W. } 
Miss Mary Bissett Ferry, an Associate of the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union, died in Norwalk, Conn., March 18, 1915, in the sixty-sixth 
year of her age. She was a daughter of the late U. 8S. Senator Orris 8. 
Ferry, of Connecticut, and granddaughter of Gov. Clark Bissell of the 
same State. A cousin, Miss Mary A. Bissell, writes of her: ‘‘Miss Ferry 
was a woman of noble character, broad philanthropy, and high literary 
attainments, inheriting much of her father’s vigorous mentality. She was 
an ardent lover of nature, and an enthusiastic bird student lending her 
influence to all legislation for their protection. The last ten years of her 
life were spent with her mother, at their home in Norwalk, amid charming 
surroundings of woodland and meadow, made especially attractive to the 
birds by pools, bird shelter boxes, and food in abundance during the winter 
months. Her little feathered friends repaid their sympathetic and gener- 
