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not then duly appreciated, but in these days of minute discrimination of 

 characters it takes the high rank justly its due. Baron Selys was thus 

 eminent both as a naturalist and as a statesman, and distinguished 

 among his fellow citizens for his courtesy and sincerity of character. 



Barbara Jordan, daughter of President Jordan of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, died at Palo Alto September 13, 1900. She was born Nov. 10, 1891, 

 being just as old as the University itself. The little girl was a born 

 ornithologist. Before any one had thought of teaching her, she knew all 

 the forest trees of the Sierras by name and the birds of the university 

 campus by their songs. Afterwards she extended this knowledge to an 

 acquaintance with all the song birds of the United States as represented 

 in her little collection. Her books on birds have been made the nucleus 

 of a lai-ge library of ornithology presented to Stanford University as the 

 " Barbara Jordan Library of Birds." 



To William MacGillivray, the Avell-known author of a 'History of 

 British Birds,' and as the acknowledge coadjutor of Audubon in the pre- 

 paration of his great work on American birds, and hence an especially 

 interesting personage to American ornithologists, a memorial tablet was 

 unveiled at Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, with appropriate com- 

 memorative addresses by Dr. John Forbes White, Principal Marshall 

 Lang, and others, some of whom had been his pupils at Aberdeen. High 

 tributes were paid to his moral worth and high scientific attainments in a 

 wide field of research, and especiallv to the abilitv with which he filled 

 the Chair of Natural History in Marischal College and University from 

 1841 to 1852, when at the early age of fifty-six he was laid to rest in the 

 New Calton Burying Ground of Edinburgh. Said Dr. White, in his pre- 

 sentation address: " Had sufficient money been at our'disposal, we should 

 have adopted the suggestion of Sir John Struthers and founded a gold 

 medal in MacGillivray's memory in the University. But, failing in this, 

 we have had to content ourselves with a monument at his grave by Mr 

 M'Glashen, of Edinburgh, in fine Peterhead granite, about nine feet high. 

 The design would have pleased MacGillivray. Near the foot is a good-size 

 golden eagle, the royal bird loved by the ornithologist, the extinction of 

 which in the Scottish Highlands he deeply lamented. It fittingly suggests 

 the lofty aspirations of MacGillivray. The eagle is finely executed in 

 bronze by Mr. D. W. Stevenson, R. S. A., from a splendid drawing of the 

 bird by MacGillivray himself, now the property of the British Museum. 

 The monument is adorned with Celtic ornament, which befits the tomb- 

 stone of our naturalist, who held that Gaelic was the most beautiful lan- 

 guage in the world. In the center is a fine lona Cross, svmbol of the 

 earnest faith of the reverent MacGillivray. The bronze tablet is made by 

 'The Guild of Handicraft' of London, from the design of Mr. Ashbee, 

 whose work is well known. It is adorned with artistic representations of 



