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Brainerd was born in Boston, March 3, 1893. He attended the public 

 schools of Brookline until 1910 when he entered the Hallock School at 

 Great Barrington, Mass., preparatory for Williams College, which he 

 entered the following year and graduated with his class in 1915. 



After graduating he taught for a year before taking up post-graduate 

 work at Harvard University, where he spent two years specializing in 

 economics and international law. 



At the outbreak of the war he at once volunteered, but was rejected. 

 Not discouraged, he submitted to an operation, and in August 1918 was 

 accepted for enlistment in the Navy, but on account of the influenza epi- 

 demic raging at that time, he was not ordered to report for duty until 

 after the first of October. He was promoted to the grade of Chief Boat- 

 swains' Mate U. S. N. R. F., and as such was attending the Candidates 

 Material School at Cambridge when he developed the illness that resulted 

 in his death. 



His interest in birds dated back to the time that he was twelve years old, 

 and continued unabated for the rest of his life. During his five years of 

 attendance at school and college in Berkshire county he worked indefatig- 

 ably during his spare moments and gathered much valuable data on the 

 migration, distribution and abundance of birds in that section of Massa- 

 chusetts. In January, 1916 he was elected to active membership in the 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, and served as its Secretary from December, 

 1917 to the time of his death. During this period he was among the 

 foremost in the ranks of the active field workers in the region about Boston. 



Mr. Brainerd possessed the rare faculty of doing well everything to which 

 he set hand or mind. He was never satisfied to do anything except his 

 very best in any of his numerous interests whether athletics, studies, or 

 ornithology. His enthusiasm and good nature were contagious. 



To those who were privileged to have known him, his loss is a very real 

 one, leaving a place that can never be filled. — J. L. Peters. 



The Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington, D. C, desires during the coming year to greatly increase 

 the number of its voluntary migration and bird count observers. The 

 satisfactory carrying out of the provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty 

 Act involves careful study of bird migration and its attendant problems, 

 and many additional data are desired. Any persons who are willing to 

 assist by making reports on the migration of birds in their localities, will be 

 very gladly furnished with the requisite blanks by the Biological Survey. 



At the annual meeting of the Nuttall Ornithological Club held on Decem- 

 ber 1, 1919, Dr. Glover M. Allen was elected president to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Mr. William Brewster who had held the office ever 

 since the Club was organized. The secretary, Mr. Campbell Bosson, 

 declining reelection, this office was filled by the election of Mr. Warren F. 

 Eaton. 



