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and his home life was a very happy one. He spent all his leisure in the 

 woods and fields indulging his love for the birds and things of nature, 

 showing an energetic spirit and a rare enthusiasm. He knew the haunts 

 of all the birds near his home in the Santa Clara Valley, and though his 

 time was much occupied by business, he seldom failed to contrive a way 

 to obtain a daily hour or two in the field during the spring and summer 

 months. He was a careful and discriminating collector and a very ardent 

 advocate of bird protection. He was also an enthusiastic and successful 

 photographer, being one of the first in this country to obtain good 

 pictures of birds in their haunts. Although having no special education, 

 and making no profession of wide knowledge of technical ornithology, 

 in his short career he unquestionably accomplished more for the advance- 

 ment of bird study in California than any other one man has done. He 

 was preeminently a man of action — a man who obtained results. He is 

 entitled to all the credit for the original organization and much of 

 the subsequent prosperity of the Cooper Ornithological Chib. To his 

 enterprise and foresight was due the birth of the Club's 'Bulletin,* 

 later 'The Condor,' and to his unfailing industry and vigilance, its 

 recognized position at present as the best ornithological journal of its 

 class in the world. As secretary of this club and as editor of 'The Con- 

 dor' he became quite widely known, and his correspondence was exceed- 

 ingly voluminous ; and such was the charm of his nature that many who 

 had never seen him learned to love him through the hearty, sympathetic, 

 and likewise virile letters that he wrote tjiem. It was his dearest wish to 

 visit the eastern States to meet some of his correspondents and attend a 

 congress of the A. O. U., and had he lived he would have done so as soon 

 as circumstances permitted. As it is, those who mourn him are on both 

 sides of the continent, and those to whom his death is almost like that of 

 a brother are not a few. — W. H. O. 



LuDWiG KuMLiEN, an associate of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 died at his home in Milton, Wisconsin, Dec. 4, 1902, after long suffering 

 from cancer of the throat, in the 50th year of his age. He was a son of 

 the late Thure Kumlien, one of the pioneer naturalists of Wisconsin, and a 

 valued correspondent of Baird, Brewer, Cassin and Lawrence, and was born 

 at Sumner, Wisconsin, March 15, 1853. He was educated at the Albion 

 Academy and the University of Wisconsin, and at the time of his death 

 was Professor of Physics and Natural History in Milton College, to which 

 he was chosen in 1891. He was for a time an assistant in the United 

 States Fish Commission, and a special agent of Fislieries for the Tenth 

 Census, and previously naturalist of the Howgate Polar Expedition, spend- 

 ing two years in the Arctic regions, and forming very important col- 

 lections in various departments of natural history. His report as 

 naturalist of the expedition was published in 1879, forming Bulletin No. 

 15 of the U. S. National Museum (8vo, pp. 179), entitled ' Contributions to 



