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while he took an important part in the compilation of the List of Vernacular 

 Names of Australian Birds' and the R. A. O. U. Check-List. 



Dr. Robert Latshaw Walker, an Associate Member of the A. 0. U., 

 died at Carnegie, Pa., November 19, 1916, in his seventy-ninth year. Dr. 

 Walker was born in Pittsburgh, July 26, 1838, and at the age of sixteen 

 removed with his parents to Woodville, where he grew to manhood. His 

 early education was obtained at the Western University of Pennsylvania 

 (now University of Pittsburgh), and he took his medical degree at the 

 University of Pennsylvania. In 1866 he began the practice of his profes- 

 sion in what was then Mansfield Valley, now the borough of Carnegie. 

 Dr. Walker was always a lover of outdoor sports and natural history, and 

 had amassed a library of considerable size on these subjects, of which 

 ornithological books formed a large part. He was elected an Associate 

 Member of the A. O. U. in 1888, and while he did not, so far as known to 

 the writer, contribute to the ornithological magazines, he was well informed 

 on the subject in general, and took a great interest in the progress of the 

 science. Dr. Walker had a personality that endeared him to a large circle 

 of friends and acquaintances, by whom he is surely missed. — W. E. 

 Clyde Todd. 



Professor Jonathan Young Stanton, an Associate of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, 1883-1918, died at his home in Lewiston, Maine, 

 February 17, 1918, of pneumonia after a short illness. 



Professor Stanton was born in Lebanon, Maine, in June, 1834, and 

 graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1856. He took up the 

 study of law in the office of D. C. Christie, Dover, N. H., for a time; but 

 relinquishing the law, with the exception of two or more years at the 

 Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., devoted himself to the office of a 

 teacher.: two years in the New Hampton Institution, New Hampshire, 

 and two years as principal of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire. 

 In 1863 he was elected Professor of Greek and Latin in Bates College, 

 Lewiston, Maine, holding this position until 1906 when failing health forced 

 Tiirn to resign his active professorship, when he was made Professor emeritus. 

 In 1874 he travelled abroad. 



Professor Stanton was a man of broad scholarship, and among numerous 

 other subjects, took a deep interest in the study of ornithology. For 

 many years he conducted classes in this subject both in the lecture room 

 and in the field, and after his retirement in 1906 until about a year before 

 his death continued to give lectures and conduct field classes. 



Though of a modest and retiring nature, through a correspondence 

 with prominent naturalists in this country and in Europe, including Dar- 

 win and Wallace; and through his long labors at the College, he became 

 widely known to ornithologists and bird lovers. Many a teacher today is 

 passing on the inspiration received from Professor Stanton. 



Early in life he began the formation of a collection of birds and an orni- 



