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California Sanitarium, Lamanda Park, Pasadena, California, on May 25, 

 1915. His death was caused by an abcesson the brain, the result of two 

 accidents when horses fell with him. He had been dangerously ill for four 

 months. Mr. Cameron was born December 19, 1854, and was the son of 

 Allan Gordon' Cameron of Barcaldene Ledaig, Argyllshire, Scotland; but 

 for many years he has resided at Marsh, Dawson Co., Montana. 



All of his spare time was devoted to ornithology which had been his 

 favorite study from boyhood. He published 'The Birds of Custer and 

 Dawson Counties, Montana,' in 'The Auk,' for 1907 and 1908, and a 

 number of admirable detailed studies of characteristic species of that 

 region, which were enhanced by the photographic illustrations contributed 

 by his wife, who had a keen sympathetic interest in his ornithological 

 work. Mr. Cameron also contributed to 'The Ibis,' 'Country Life' and 

 'The Field.' He was elected a Member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union in 1889, an Associate of the A. O. U. in 1903, and a Member in 1910, 

 and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1888. 



Prof. Frederick Ward Putnam, an Associate of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, died on August 14, 1915, in the seventy-seventh year of 

 his age. Prof. Putnam was famous as an archaeologist and ethnologist, 

 being professor of American archaeology and ethnology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 

 and author of many papers upon Archaeological subjects. His interests 

 extended beyond the field of his specialty and in early life he was active 

 in several branches of zoology . In 1876-8 he was in charge of the 

 Agassiz collection of fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 and was one of the founders and editors of the 'American Naturalist.' 

 His principal contribution to ornithology was a 'Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Essex Co., Mass.,' published in 1856, which is virtually a list of the birds 

 of the State. Prof. Putnam was born in Salem, Mass., April 16, 1839. 



Frank B. Armstrong, of Brownsville, Texas, well known throughout 

 this country and Europe as a collector and taxidermist, died at his home, 

 on August 20, 1915, in the fifty-third year of his age. He was a native of 

 St. John, N. B., of English parentage and was born on May 10, 1863. He 

 was raised and educated in Medford, Mass., whither his parents had 

 moved, and after graduating from the public schools he studied taxidermy 

 in Boston under C. J. Maynard. About 1885, he travelled to Laredo, 

 Texas, and collected extensively in that vicinity and in Mexico until 1S90, 

 when he moved to Brownsville. He was a skillful taxidermist and made 

 excellent bird skins, and specimens bearing his name are to be found in 

 all the large collections in America. 



Dr. Thomas S. Roberts had been appointed Associate Curator of the 

 Zoological Museum and Professor of Ornithology in the University of 

 Minnesota and expects shortly to devote his entire time to this work. 

 His address will be Room 209, Millard Hall, University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



