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Storer, Tracy Irwin, Berkeley, Calif. First Lieut. Sanitary Corps, 



Laboratory Car 'Metchnikoff,' Fort Sam Houston, Texas. 

 Sweeney, Joseph A., Halsey, Nebr. Private Co. E, 2d Battalion, 



20th Engineers (Forest), Am. Exped. Forces, in France. 

 Tyler, Dr. Winsor M., Lexington, Mass. Captain Medical Reserve 



Corps, Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. 

 Wilcox Thomas Ferdinand, New York City. Capt. in Air Service, 



New York City. 

 Wood, Dr. Casey Albert, Chicago, 111. Lieut., Medical Corps, 



7 West Madison St., Chicago, 111. 

 Wood, George B., Philadelphia, Pa. Am. Exped. Forces, in France. 

 Young, John Paul, Youngstown, O. Captain, 5th Co., Coast 



Artillery Corps, Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, N. J. 



Just as we go to press comes the sad news of the death, on January 6 r 

 1919, of Theodore Roosevelt. So prominently and continuously has he 

 figured in the history of our Country during his active life, and so great 

 have been his services to humanity, that his attainments as a naturalist 

 have been completely overshadowed. Only a few have appreciated the 

 breadth of his knowledge in the field of science or realized that he had there 

 established a lasting reputation wholly independent of his greater fame. 



A member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, during his college days 

 at Cambridge, and an Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union 

 from 1888 to 1902, he was, throughout his life, an active and accurate 

 student of birds. As a hunter he was not content with the mere accumu- 

 lation of trophies or specimens but invariably obtained valuable and 

 original information on the habits of the animals, and his numerous con- 

 tributions to ornithology and mammalogy will stand for all time as works 

 of reference. 



On certain special subjects, such as animal coloration, he was an author- 

 ity and his intimate knowledge of the literature and the extent of his 

 personal observations were a revelation to those who were privileged to 

 discuss them with him. 



In the United States National Museum and the American Museum of 

 Natural History his name will be forever perpetuated in connection with 

 the great African and South American collections which he was largely 

 instrumental in securing. 



Those who were in a position to judge this side of the man will realize 

 that it was only the eminence of Roosevelt the statesman and the constant 

 call to public service, that obscured the reputation and checked the further 

 development of Roosevelt the naturalist. 



