THE AUK: 



A C^U A RTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 

 vol. xnr. January, 1896. no. i. 



IN MEMORIAM: GEORGE NEWBOLD LAWRENCE. 1 

 Born, 20th Oct., 1S06. Died, 17th Jan., 1S95. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E. 



"To him who in the love of Nature holds 

 Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 

 A various language," 



and none can understand her rythmic lines so well as he who 

 has taken the denizens of the forest and the fields into intimate 

 fellowship with himself, and gained them for his own familiar 

 friends. With such a one Nature holds especial converse, and 

 unfolds to him the secrets hidden from all ordinary eyes. The 

 way of a serpent on a rock, and of an eagle in the air, the wisest 

 of men confessed he was unable to understand, and yet by many, 

 in the closing years of this nineteenth century, profiting by their 

 own, and the labors of those who have preceded them, in the 

 close and earnest study of Nature's laws and methods, much 

 more intricate and obtruse problems than those which perplexed 

 the King of Israel have been clearly comprehended. In that 

 branch of science which relates to the living things of earth, and 



1 An address delivered at the Thirteenth Congress of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, at Washington, D. C, Nov. 12, 1S95. 



