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country who turned to him for aid as well as by those who profited from his 

 pubhshed papers. At the next meeting of the Union a memorial address 

 upon Prof. Cooke will be delivered by Dr. T. S. Palmer, which will later 

 appear in 'The Auk.' — W. S. 



SvEN Magnus Gronberger, of the Liljrary staff of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, an Associate of the Union, died at Georgetown University 

 Hospital, Washington, on April 24, 191G, after an illness of about three 

 weeks. Dr. Gronberger was born at Norrkoping, Sweden, August 19, 

 1866, and graduated in 1884 from the gymnasium of Norrkoping, an his- 

 toric city on the Baltic 75 miles south of Stockholm. After having spent 

 some time in France and England, he removed in 188G to New York City, 

 where he studied law, and in 1907 came to Washington and entered the 

 service of the Smithsonian. At the time of his death he had nearly com- 

 pleted a special course for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at George 

 Washington University, with topics Zoology and Geology, on which sub- 

 jects he had published several papers in various journals. He was an 

 accomplished linguist, knowing perfectly French and the Scandinavian 

 tongues, including some Icelandic, and was versed also in the English, 

 German and Italian languages and literatures, besides Latin and Greek. 

 For a number of years he had made a special study of zoological parks as 

 factors in the popularization of natural science. He was a member of the 

 Biological Society of Washington, the Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington, the Audubon Society, the Society for the Advancement of 

 Scandinavian Study, and the Writers' Club of Washington. 



Dr. Gronberger was the author of several papers on ornithological sub- 

 jects which have appeared in ' The Auk ' and in ' Forest anci Stream ' not- 

 ably a translation of Peter Kalm's account of the Passenger Pigeon. He 

 had also prepared an exhaustive monograph on the "Palsearctic Birds of 

 Greenland," being a review of the occurrence of European and Asiatic 

 species in Greenland from the middle of the 18th century to the present 

 time. Publication of this paper is still pending. 



Joseph Parker Norris, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, 1886-1904, and a widely known oologist, died at his home in Phila- 

 delphia on March 17, 1916. 



Mr. Norris was born in Philadelphia, November 3, 1847, and was promi- 

 nent in the business and social circles of the city. From boyhood he 

 had been interested in the study of birds and their eggs and in 1885 he 

 began the formation of a comprehensive collection of North American 

 birds' eggs which, as the Norris collection, is now known to oologists 

 throughout the country and is one of the largest collections of its kind in 

 America. For many years Mr. Norris took an active interest in develop- 

 ing this collection, assisted by his eldest son, J. Parker Norris Jr., its present 



