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His next position was that of surgeon to the Inter-ocean Canal, Rail- 

 road, and Mining Company Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras, cov- 

 ering the years 1853-1854, when he traveled over the route to Lake Nica- 

 ragua, since made famous by the more recent advocates of the Nicaragua 

 Canal. 



Returning from this enterprise Dr. Woodhouse became surgeon at Fort 

 Delaware from 1S54 to 1856 and later, 1859-1S60, was surgeon on Cope's 

 Line of Packets plying between Philadelphia and Liverpool. 



In 1872 Dr. Woodhouse married Miss Sarah A. Peck, and is survived 

 by two children. The last of his generation of scientific men, he had 

 been for many years in retirement, as it were, and out of touch with the 

 leaders in his favorite study, but more recently he became associated with 

 the younger ornithologists of the present day and attended two Con- 

 gresses of the American Ornithologists 1 Union, and many meetings of 

 the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, where his reminiscences of the 

 older bird students were received with deep interest ; his stories of Nut- 

 tall, combining his hobbies by digging up plants with his gun-barrel, 

 and the details of the capture of rare birds where city streets and blocks 

 of houses now stand, were ever interesting themes. 



His earnest attention to papers and communications and his interest 

 in every new discovery gave evidence that the enjoyment of these meet- 

 ings was not all on one side, and the revival of the favorite pastime of 

 his youth seems to have added not a little to his pleasure and to have 

 cast a brighter glow over the closing years of a life as full of action and 

 adventure as it was marked by modesty and earnestness. — W. S. 



John Cowing Knox, of Jackson, Minnesota, an Associate of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union, was drowned in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Can- 

 ada, on June 10, 1904. Mr. Knox was one of a part} of three, and had 

 started to row from the mainland to a small island three miles distant. 

 When about two miles from shore a gale sprung up and the boat went 

 over. This occurred at nine in the morning. The three occupants clung 

 to the boat and tried to swim and push the boat to shore. This failed, 

 and at two o'clock in the afternoon one of the party dropped from the 

 boat from exhaustion and sank. Mr. Knox managed to hang on until 

 two-thirty, when he, too, relaxed his hold and sank. The third member 

 of the party managed to cling to the boat until it finally drifted ashore at 

 •eleven o'clock that night, and was rescued. The two bodies were recov- 

 ered several days later. Mr. Knox was twenty-five years of age, and had 

 just recently gone into partnership with his father, in law business. He 

 was a graduate of the University of Minnesota in 1900, and of the Law 

 Department of the same university in 1903. He had been interested in 

 ornithology since childhood, and had formed an excellent collection of 

 eggs of Minnesota birds. He had long planned this ornithological out- 

 ing to Canada, which came to such a sudden and sad ending. He was an 

 excellent student, and very popular with his friends, having a warm, 

 open-hearted nature. — W. T. M. 



