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Eugene Carleton Thukber, an Associate Member of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, died at Alhambra, California, on September 6 

 1896, at the age of thirty-one years. Mr. Thurber will be known to the 

 readers of ' The Auk ' chiefly through his excellent ' List of the Birds of 

 Morris County, New Jersey,' reviewed in the fifth volume of this journal 

 (1888, p, 421). Shortly after its publication he removed to California, 

 where he hoped to actively continue his ornithological pursuits. He was 

 a careful observer and skilled collector, ever ambitious to win the esteem 

 of his fellow-workers, but failing health so handicapped his efforts that 

 he was never able to do justice to his own high aspirations. During the 

 past two years he has lived an out-of-door life in the field, collecting birds 

 and mammals, as his health would permit, and preserving to the end his 

 love for .his favorite study. 



Dr. George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and Curator of the U. S. National Museum, died suddenly of 

 pneumonia at his home in Washington on September 6, 1S96, at the age 

 of 45 years. Although Dr. Goode was not an ornithologist, through his 

 position for nine years as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, in charge of the National Museum, ornithology, in common with 

 other branches of natural history, is deeply indebted to him for his liber- 

 ality in promoting its interests. As a personal friend and adviser, he 

 was so well-known, not only to ornithologists, but to investigators in all 

 branches of zoology, that a few words in memoriam of this distinguished 

 naturalist are particularly fitting in the pages of ' The Auk.' Dr. Goode 

 was especially eminent as an ichthyologist, and is the author of a long 

 list of important papers and standard works on the fishes and fishing 

 industries of North America; his last work, 'Oceanic Ichthyology, 

 written in conjunction with Dr. Tarleton II. Bean, was published onlv 

 shortly before his death. He combined in rare degree administrative 

 ability with talent as a scientific investigator, and a charming personality 

 that easily smoothed the way to success in whatever he undertook. As a 

 museum director he was doubtless without a peer, and had justly a world- 

 wide reputation as an expert in all matters of museum administration. 

 Stricken down thus suddenly in the prime of life and at the height of his 

 usefulness, his loss to science, and especially to the National Museum, 

 with which he had been officially connected for twenty-three years, seems 

 well-nigh irreparable. When his predecessor in office, the late Professor 

 Baird, passed away, Goode proved to be the man pre-eminentiv fitted to 

 take up his official duties and carry on his work. But where can be found 

 a man so perfectly equipped to bear the mantle of Goode? 



The question of establishing a Bird Day in the schools has been made 

 the subject of a special circular (No. 17) by the Biological Survey of the 

 Department of Agriculture. The plan suggested cannot be too heartily 

 endorsed ; its adoption throughout the land would be an inestimable 



