IO Elliot, George Neivbold Lawrence. |jan 



as eager for news of ornithology and ornithologists as he ever 

 displayed in the days of his activity, and his mind was clear and 

 showed no evidence of his great age. The end was peaceful, and 

 he passed away only a few days after the death of his wife, to 

 whom during the period of her long illness, he had ever exhibited 

 a touching, affectionate devotion rarely witnessed. 



With Lawrence ends an era of our science in the New World. 

 In a certain sense he belonged to the past, to the ranks of those 

 who directed ornithological science into a new path in the middle 

 of this century before a large proportion of the present workers 

 were born, and although he wrote and published as late as four 

 years ago, his name is best associated with those long since 

 passed from earth. What he did, he did well, to the best of his 

 ability, and he has left an unblemished record and an untar- 

 nished name. Happy for that Science ! Happy for that land ! 

 which can claim for its own men like this, pure in life and 

 mind, devoted to the interests which command the highest 

 thought of their being, and which bring gcod to the many. 

 There is one more escutcheon on Fame's temple wall, one more 

 name inscribed in line of golden light, and as we contemplate 

 this life, and behold the " upright man and the just," and mark 

 his peaceful passing from earth's familiar scenes, we seem to 

 hear, as though from out a cloud illumined with celestial fire, a 

 voice uttering the solemn admonition — 



"So live, that when thy summons comes .... 

 [Thou too shall] approach thy grave 

 Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 

 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 



