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of 32 acres were presented to the county for a park, to be known as Han- 

 cock Park, the work of development was placed under Mr. Daggett's 

 direction. He was an active member of the Cooper Ornithological Club 

 for 25 years and when Vice President of the Southern Division in 1900 

 his portrait was published in 'The Condor' (Vol. II, p. 9). In recog- 

 nition of his ornithological work his name is now borne by two California 

 birds (Sphyrapicus v. daggetti Grinnell and Morphnus daggetti Miller), but 

 his greatest monument will always be his work in connection with the 

 Museum and its collection of fossils from Rancho La Brea. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, Mrs. Lelia Axtell Daggett, of Los Angeles, a daughter, 

 Mrs. Paul Stuart Rattle, of Cynwyd, Pa., and two brothers who reside 

 in the East.— T. S. P. 



Horace Winslow Wright, since 1902 an Associate of the American 

 Ornithologist's Union, died on June 3, 1920, at his summer home in Jeffer- 

 son Highlands, among the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Born 

 at Dorchester, Mass., June 21, 1848, the son of Edmond and Sarah A. 

 (Hunt) Wright, he graduated from Harvard College inthe Classofl869. 

 The year following, he entered the New Church Theological School, then 

 in Waltham, where he completed his preparation for the ministry in 1873, 

 and was at once made minister of the New Jerusalem Church (Sweden- 

 borgian) at Abington, Mass. In 1876, his decided literary tastes induced 

 him to relinquish his ministerial work, and in 1878, he was made President 

 of the Abington Public Library, an office which he held until 1892. Mag- 

 azine-indexing and the revising of Latin translations, mainly theological 

 occupied much of his time during the years from 1879 to 1896, and he 

 prepared a catalogue of the Abington Public Library. 



A summer's residence at Jefferson Highlands for five months of each 

 year since 1882, gave him opportunity for a closer enjoyment and apprecia- 

 tion of Nature, an opportunity of which his more ample leisure in later 

 years allowed him to make much avail. So arose his active interest in 

 the observation of birds, a pursuit that became, in the last quarter-century 

 of his hfe, an absorbing passion, leading him to devote much of his time to 

 systematic rambles by field, wood and shore, eager to see and record the 

 bird-life about him, finding in this a constant source of delight and profit- 

 able adventure. To his enthusiasm he added a painstaking care in ob- 

 servation and quickly developed skill and accuracy in field-study. In 

 1902, he became a member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge 



During these later years he spent the winter and spring months in 

 Boston, when it was his almost daily custom to visit favorable spots of 

 the near-by region and to keep an accurate record of the numbers and 

 local movements of birds seen. Being much abroad and in widely varied 

 areas, he was frequently able to note unusual birds, the records of which 

 appear in sundry shorter communications to 'The Auk,' beginning in 

 1905, with a brief account of an Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker seen on 

 successive days in Belmont. 



