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opportunity to devote himself to a study in which from early youth he had 
been deeply interested. He joined the Delaware Valley Ornithological 
Club soon after its organization and later became one of its active mem- 
bers and served as treasurer 1908-1911. In these years he formed a good 
local collection of birds and acquired an accurate knowledge of our native 
species and an experience in field observation which made him an ornitholo- 
gist of no little ability. 
Leaving the Academy in 1892 to enter business he became connected 
with the J. Ellwood Lee Chemical Company of Conshohocken of which 
he was assistant secretary for many years. In 1911 the Lee Tire and 
Rubber Company was organized and Mr. Wright became its secretary, a 
position which he held until he removed to New York in 1916, becoming 
associated with the Philadelphia Rubber Work Company and general 
manager and treasurer of the Acushnet Process Company. He was 
untiring in his devotion to business and his abilities contributed largely to 
the success of the interests with which he was connected. In spite of the 
continual pressure of business obligations he never lost his interest in 
birds and his greatest pleasure was to get out in the open, either in the 
vicinity of his home, where his early studies had been conducted, or on 
the tract that he had secured in the Adirondacks. 
He was devoted to the American Ornithologists’ Union and attended 
the annual meetings whenever possible. In company with Mrs. Wright 
he joined the ‘overland’ party which attended the San Francisco meeting 
in 1915, and with keen delight made the acquaintance in life of many of the 
western birds which he had previously known only as museum specimens. 
Mr. Wright had a delightful personality; cheerful under any conditions 
and kindly disposed toward everyone with whom he came in contact. 
He was married in 1910 to Miss Louise Weston who with two daughters 
survives him.— W. 8S. 
Mrs. KATHARINE REBECCA STyER, an Associate of the American Orni- 
thologists’ Union for fourteen years, died of pneumonia on January 20, 
1917, at her residence in Concordville, Pa. She was born November 1, 
1859, at Chester Heights, Pa., the daughter of Henry Lincoln Paschall and 
Anna Thompson Pancoast, and was married in 1880 to Mr. J. J. Styer. 
Soon after her marriage she took up the study of birds, and with no as- 
sistance but such as she could obtain from some of the older ornithological 
books, she acquired a remarkably thorough knowledge of the local avifauna 
and since 1902 has been one of the most reliable members of the Delaware 
Valley Ornithological Club’s migration corps. She was also deeply inter- 
ested in the work of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society and did much to 
encourage the study of ornithology among boys and girls of her acquaint- 
ance. 
Mrs. Styer’s interest in birds was far above that of the average bird 
lover, she was all that this term implies and a good ornithologist besides.— 
W.S. 
