THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. XXI. January, 1904. No. 1. 



IN MEMORIAM: THOMAS McILWRAITH.^ 

 Born 25th December, 1824. — Died 31st January, 1903. 



BY A. K. FISHER. 



With Portrait. 



Since the last memorial address was delivered the American 

 Ornithologists' Union has lost two of its Fellows. Scarcely had 

 it recovered from the shock caused by the death of Doctor Merrill 

 when the sad announcement came that our venerable Canadian 

 Fellow, one of the Founders of the Union, Thomas Mcllwraith, had 

 passed away at his home in Hamilton. For a year or more there 

 had been a gradual breaking down of the system and while many 

 at a distance had no idea that he was seriously ill those close to 

 him felt assured that the final dissolution was inevitable, and it 

 came quietly and peacefully. Four sons and three daughters sur- 

 vive : Thomas F. Mcllwraith of Hamilton, H. P. Mcllwraith of 

 Newcastle, Penn., J. G. Mcllwraith of Anderson, Lid., Dr. K. C. 

 Mcllwraith of Toronto, Mrs. Service of Detroit, Mrs. Holt of 

 Quebec, and Miss Jean Mcllwraith, the authoress. Another 

 daughter died in infancy, in 1864, and death did not again enter 



^An address delivered at the Twenty-first Congress of The American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Philadelphia, Penn., Nov. 17, 1903. 



