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Jonathan and Caroline (Bailey) Eddy. His father was one of the leading 
lumber manufacturers of Maine, and was descended from the Rey. William 
Eddy, a vicar of Cranbrook, County of Kent, England, whose son, Samuel 
settled in Plymouth Colony in 1630. His great grandfather Col. Jonathan 
Eddy, served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. 
Mr. Eddy received his education in the public schools at Bangor, at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and at Yale College, from which he 
graduated in the class of 1879. He was married in February, 1880, to 
Marianna, daughter of Dr. Edward M. Field, of Bangor, Me. His wife 
and six children survive him. 
Mr. Eddy was an authority on bird life in Michigan, and had in his pos- 
session what was said to be the largest collection of birds in the State, all 
of which he had collected and mounted himself, and he had assisted in the 
publication of works on Michigan birds. 
He was a member of the Bay City school board for six years, and was 
an officer of various business and financial companies.— H. M. 
Gustav ApoupH Link, Assistant Preparator in the taxidermic depart- 
ment of the Carnegie Museum, died at Pittsburgh, Pa., on August 16, 
1916, from the effects of a bite accidentally received on the preceding day 
from a captive rattlesnake. Mr. Link was born in Pittsburgh on May 15, 
1860, and became interested in collecting and preserving birds at an early 
age, forming a very creditable collection of the local species. In 1898 he 
joined the staff of the Carnegie Museum as assistant in the taxidermic 
laboratory, where, working under the direction of Mr. Frederic 8. Webster, 
he mounted by far the largest part of the single specimens of birds now on 
exhibition in the gallery of birds of that institution. Many of the mounted 
reptiles, too, are examples of his work. Mr. Link was a member of a party 
from the Carnegie Museum which went to Texas in the summer of 1907 
to collect reptiles, in which he was very successful. He collected reptiles 
also in the Isle of Pines in May and June, 1910, and was sent to the same 
locality again in 1912 to collect birds, his stay lasting from June of that 
year until May of the next. The large and representative collection which 
he brought back formed the basis of the present writer’s paper on the 
ornithology of this island, recently published in the ‘Annals of the Carnegie 
Museum’ (Vol. X, 1916, pp. 146-296). Mr. Link’s perseverance and 
enthusiasm, in spite of the many difficulties under which he labored, 
served him in good stead in bringing to a successful conclusion the various 
projects in which he engaged, and the tragic manner of his taking off was a 
great shock to his many friends both in and outside of the institution where 
he spent so many years of faithful service.— W. E. C. T. 
Norman DeWirr Betts, an associate of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union since 1908 and a contributor to ‘The Auk’, was killed by lightning 
on his ranch in northeastern Utah, on May 21, 1917. 
He was born in New York City on July 21, 1880. His parents, both 
