^"'•j^J'^^n zVi.LEN. In Memon'am: George B. Sennett. ly 



His proposed monograph of the birds of this region, for which 

 he had been for so many years gathering material, at a very con- 

 siderable outlay of both time and money, remains still unwritten. 

 It was designed to be a quarto, with numerous colored and other 

 illustrations, and quite a number of the colored plates had been 

 prepared, the drawings having been made by Mr. Ernest Seton- 

 Thompson several years ago. It is therefore peculiarly sad that 

 when the time had nearly arrived when he could to a large extent 

 lay aside business cares and devote his energies to the completion 

 of the work that lay so near to his heart, that death should so. 

 suddenly terminate his career while still at the prime of his intel- 

 lectual and physical powers, and his enthusiasm for scientific work 

 unabated. It is, however, expected that through the liberality of 

 Mrs. Sennett, who was devotedly attached to his interests, and es- 

 pecially interested in his scientific work, provision will be made for 

 the preparation and early publication of his work on Texas birds. 



As shown by the bibliography of his writings appended to this 

 memorial, numbering some thirty titles, Mr. Sennett was not a 

 prolific writer, but all of his papers are real contributions to. 

 science, and indicate that if he had been free to pursue his scien- 

 tific aspirations, untrammeled by business interests, he would; 

 most certainly have attained enviable prominence as an investigator. 



In addition to Mr. Sennett's visits to Minnesota and Texas, 

 already detailed, he made, in 1886, two vacation trips to the 

 mountains of western North Carolina, M'hich form the basis of a 

 paper, entitled ' Observations in Western North Carolina Moun- 

 tains in 1886,' published in 'The Auk ' for July, 1887. He also 

 collected and observed birds for many years about his home in 

 northwestern Pennsylvania. His first formal paper appeared in 

 1878, and related to his first Texas journey; his last paper was 

 published in 1892, and is entitled ' Description of a New Turkey,' 

 and is based on his Texas collections. 



In 1883 Mr. Sennett deposited his collections of birds and 

 mammals in the American Museum of Natural History, later pre- 

 senting to the Museum his collection of mammals, numbering 

 several hundred specimens, mostly from Texas and eastern Mexico. '^ 



' See Allen, J. A., 'On a Collection of Mammals from Southern Texas 

 and Northeastern Mexico,' Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. Ill, No. 2, 1889, 

 pp. 219-228. — An annotated list of 31 species. Dipodops sinnatti, sp. nov. 



