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LiNDSEY LoTJiN Jewel, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, died of tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, N. Y., on September 5, 1915. 



Mr. Jewel was born at Christiansburg, Va., on November 24, 1877, and 

 was graduated in 1900 with the degree of B. S. from the Virginia Poly- 

 technic Institute. Two years later he received the degree of Civil Engineer 

 from the same institution. While a student he had enlisted in 1898 in the 

 2nd Virginia Volunteers for service in the Spanish-American War, and at 

 its close was mustered out with the rank of Corporal. 



From 1903 Mr. Jewel was connected with the McClintic-Marshall 

 Construction Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1910 was sent by them 

 to the Canal Zone in charge of the lock gate erection, and was thus engaged 

 when, in the autumn of 1912, he organized the Central American Construc- 

 tion Company, and was chosen its President and Chief Engineer. Before 

 his return to the United States in October, 1913, in search of health, his 

 company had completed some important constructions in the Zone. In 

 recognition of his interest in development work in the Zone, President 

 Wilson, in 1913, had appointed him United States Vice-Consul at Colon. 



The end, hastened by the death of his wife, his companion since child- 

 hood, came only after a wonderfully brave fight. No children survive. 



Mr. Jewel was a Member of the National Asspciation of Audubon Socie- 

 ties and was elected, in 1910, a Member of the American Society of Civil 

 Engineers, of which he had been an Associate Member since 1906. His 

 chief ornithological work consists of a collection of some 400 beautifully 

 prepared skins of Panamanian birds (with some nests and eggs) now pre- 

 served in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 In the preparation of many of these, particularly hummingbirds, his wife 

 skillfully assisted him. Readers of 'The Auk' will remember his article on 

 'Some North American Birds in Panama' (Auk, 1913, pp. 422-429). 



Mr. Jewel's most kindly and friendly hospitality to another Associate 

 of the Union, and the writer on the occasion of their visit to the Zone in 

 1912 contributed very greatly to the enjoyment and success of that visit. 

 The President Emeritus of his Alma Mater writes that Mr. Jewel had, 

 'before reaching middle life, won for himself in the short period of time 

 allowed him on earth, a position of wide and commanding influence and 

 placed to his credit a surprising amount of engineering work of the highest 

 grade and value.' — C. H. R. 



John Claire Wood, well known in Michigan as an oologist and ornitholo- 

 gist, died June 16, 1916, at his home in Detroit, aged 45 years. Mr. Wood 

 was born on July 27, 1871, at Saline, Washtenaw Co., Mich., and came to 

 Detroit in 1878 where he spent the remainder of his life. He was educated 

 in the Detroit public schools, and early took up the profession of surveying. 

 He was for many years a member of the firm of Mason L. Brown and Co., 

 and attained considerable prominence as an efficient civil engineer. 



From his early boyhood he was intensely interested and devoted to 

 ornithology, and especially to oology. His collection of some SOOO eggs 



