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According to a sketch of his life in 'The Ibis' for July, 1920, it was 

 his ambition to take a trip around the world and if he had been able to 

 secure passage he would have started in August, 1919. His last work- 

 was devoted to field observations during a month spent in making notes 

 on migration at Bardsey Lighthouse, Wales, just before undergoing his 

 operation. 



To American readers he is known chiefly by his admirable books on 

 'The Structure and Life of Birds,' 1895, and 'The Flight of Birds,' 1912. 

 He was also author of 'Fauna and Flora of Haileybury,' 'Life and Evo- 

 lution,' 'Darwinism and Socialism,' and some short papers. — T. S. P. 



Dr. Henry Kemble Oliver, an Associate of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union since 1900, and a Life Associate since 1909, died at his apart- 

 ment in Boston, on October 25, 1919. Dr. Oliver was the son of General 

 Henry K. Oliver and was born in Salem, Mass., in 1829. He graduated 

 from Harvard in the class of 1852 and from the Harvard Medical School 

 in 1855. After two years in Paris and Vienna he entered upon the prac- 

 tice of medicine in Boston, where he later became one of the leading 

 physicians. During the Civil War he was appointed medical inspector 

 of camps in McClellan's army. 



Dr. Oliver was a philanthropist and one of his principal gifts was a 

 donation of several hundred thousand dollars to Harvard University on 

 condition that the name of the donor should be kept secret until his death. 

 When his health began to fail some years ago, he made over practically 

 his entire fortune to the University to found a department of hygiene, 

 reserving just enough for his own living and personal needs. At the 

 time of his death, which occurred just on the eve of his ninetieth birth- 

 day, he was not only the oldest member of the Union but the oldest Amer- 

 ican ever associated with the Union. — T. S. P. 



John Henry Flanagan, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union since 1898, died of cerebral haemorrhage at his home in Providence, 

 R. I., February 23, 1920, after an illness of three months. At the time 

 of his death he was in his 52nd year, having been born at Cranston, R. I., 

 July 7, 1868. His early years were passed at Apponaug and his educa- 

 tion was received at La Salle, Manhattan College and the Harvard Law 

 School, from which he graduated in 1895. He studied law in the office 

 of Edwin D. McGuinness, then Mayor of Providence, and his partner, 

 John Doran. Upon the death of Mr. McGuinness in 1901 he became a 

 member of the firm which was then changed to Doran and Flanagan. 

 He was a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association and at one time 

 was Solicitor of the town of Warwick. 



Mr. Flanagan was deeply interested in birds and their eggs and had 

 one of the best private collections of eggs in the state, but apparently 

 published little on ornithology. He was a member of the Providence 



