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the Des Moines, Boone, and other Iowa daily papers. Among 

 these titles are, 'Bird Protection in England,' 'Wild Birds know 

 their Friends,' 'The merciless war upon the Birds,' 'Hawks and 

 Owls,' 'The Passenger Pigeon,' 'How Settlement affects the Birds, 

 both upon wet and dry land,' and numerous other articles. Mr. 

 Aldrich drafted and secured the passage of the Iowa law of 1870 

 which protects from wanton destruction the harmless and use- 

 ful birds. Of this pioneer measure he was always very proud. 

 It still remains in the code of Iowa, though slightly amended. 



Mr. Aldrich was much interested in the Kendall Young Library 

 of Webster City, Iowa, the town where he first settled. To this 

 library he donated a fine collection of books, chiefly on subjects 

 of natural history, and among them such standard works on orni- 

 thology as were published by Audubon, Wilson, Baird, Coues, 

 Ridgway, Bendire, 'Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club' 

 and the works of several prominent English authors. 



Dr. Elliott Coues was a warm and personal friend of Mr. Aldrich; 

 their mutual love for birds and historical research, was naturally 

 the strong tie that brought them together. They were both inter- 

 ested in the Expedition of Lewis and Clark. It was Mr. Aldrich 

 who first aroused public interest and secured a provision from the 

 legislature of the State for the erection of a monument near Sioux 

 City, to mark the grave of Sergeant Floyd, a member of the Lewis 

 and Clark Expedition, who died there August 20, 1804, and was the 

 first American soldier buried in Iowa soil. He was much inter- 

 ested in Dr. Coues's reprint of Lewis and Clark, and rendered him 

 assistance in its preparation, in recognition of which grateful 

 acknowledgment was expressed in the preface. It was at the 

 request of Dr. Coues that an invitation was sent to Mr. Aldrich, 

 dated August 1, 1883, inviting him to attend a Convention in New 

 York of American Ornithologists, for the purpose of founding an 

 Ornithologists' Union. 



A close friend to Mr. Aldrich writes in the 'Annals of Iowa': 

 "One of the most conspicuous traits of ^Ir. Aldrich's many sided 

 character was his intense love of old time friends, and those friends, 

 who are legion, included birds and dumb creatures, no less than 

 men. His successful advocacy of a law for the protection of song 

 birds, his delight in the songs and domestic debates and difficulties 



