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he spent some time in traveling in the Eastern States. Afterwards he 

 returned to his alma mater as a teacher, remaining until 1874 or 1S75, 

 when lie took charge of St. PauTs school for boys in Baltimore. Later 

 he returned to Racine College as master of the grammar school. Here 

 he remained until the winter of 18S1, when he first visited California. 

 At intervals during fifteen years he was head-master of Trinity School of 

 San Francisco, and in 1899 became rector of the school. 



Mr. Mead had great love for travel, which he had ample opportunitv to 

 gratify. Besides visiting Europe a number of times, he made trips to 

 Canada, Mexico, Central America, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, and the 

 South Seas, and at the time of his death was spending his vacation in 

 Guatemala. 



Mr. Mead was a deacon in the Episcopal Church and a member of the 

 California Academy of Sciences and its Section of Ornithology. While 

 he published but little on birds, he was well informed in the literatvire of 

 ornithology, and had made a special studj^ of the Birds-of-Paradise. He 

 was also particularly interested in the birds of New Guinea. 



Mr. Mead was a just man, a nian of deep sympathy, of high intellec- 

 tual attainments, a successful teacher. — L. M. L. 



The Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club 

 was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, January 2, 

 1902. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : President, 

 Charles J. Pennock ; Vice-President, William A. Shryock ; Secretary, 

 William B. Evans ; Treasurer, Stewardson Brown. During the year 1901 

 the average attendance was twenty-one, while forty eight members were 

 present at one or more meetings. 



Among the papers presented were 'Economic Value of Hawks and 

 Owls,' Samuel N. Rhoads ; 'The Yellow-winged Sparrow in Eastern 

 Pennsylvania,' Samuel Wright ; 'Distribution of the Redheaded Wood- 

 pecker, Dr. Spencer Trotter; ' Observations on Summer Birds of Clinton 

 and Potter County, Pa.' F. R. Cope, Jr.; 'Birds of the Ne%v Jersey 

 Palisades,' S. N. Rhoads and W. B. Evans; 'Adirondack Notes,' C. J. 

 Pennock; and ' Breeding of the Mockingbird in Eastern Pennsylvania,' 

 W. E. Hannum and W. E. Roberts. 



The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society was 

 held at Augusta, Maine, November 29-30, 1901. The following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: President, William L. Flower; Vice- 

 President, H. L. Spinney; Secretary-Treasurer, A. H. Norton ; Editor, 

 J. Merton Swain ; Councillors, A. L. Lane and Ora W. Knight. Besides 

 the transaction of business, and the presentation of the President's Address, 

 a number of papers were read, with numerous stereopticon illustrations. 

 The Society voted to issue a new List of Maine Birds, to be prepared by 

 Mr. O. W. Knight, and to include a map showing the faunal areas of the 

 State. The Seventh Annual Meeting will be held at Portland, Maine, on 

 "the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving, 1902." 



