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the Natural History of Arctic America made in connection with the How- 

 gate Polar Expedition, 1877-78 ' (Birds, pp. 69-105). He contributed to 

 the late G. Brown Goode's 'North American Food Fishes,' and to 

 various other publications of the Fish Commission, particularly in 

 reference to the fishes of the Great Lakes, and was for a time employed in 

 scientific work at the Milwaukee Public Museum. He was an occasional 

 contributor of notes and short papers on ornithology to ' The Auk,' 'The 

 Nidologist,' ' Forest and Stream,' and other natural history publications, 

 but his most important ornithological publication was his report on the 

 birds of the Howgate Expedition. He was married in 1892 to Miss 

 Anabelle Carr, who, with three young children, survives him. 



Curtis Clay Young, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union since 1891, died at Port Daniel, Province of Quebec, Canada, July 

 30, 1902. He was born in New York City, November 2, 187,^, and was 

 preparing at the Brooklyn Latin School to enter the Lawrence Scientific 

 School of Harvard University when forced by ill health to abandon 

 further formal study. His love of ornithology became his chief interest, 

 and remained so until his death. In spite of increasing physical disability 

 he made collecting trips to Port Daniel, Qiiebec, to Dutch Guiana, the 

 Island of Trinidad, and the Bahamas. He was also a member of the 

 Linnsean Society of New York, and of the Brooklyn Institute. His 

 collection of birds, numbering about 800 skins and 400 sets of eggs, is to 

 be placed in the museum of Vassar College. — W. F. 



Perry O. Simons, widely known as an energetic and careful col- 

 lector of birds and mammals, and for several years past employed by 

 the British Museum to collect in western Mexico and in western South 

 America, was assassinated by his native guide near Cuevas, Argentina, 

 about the end of December, 1901. Through his career as a collector he 

 accomplished so much for the promotion of science that it seems desirable 

 to place on record in 'The Auk' some account of his life and services. 

 For the following biographical sketch we are indebted to his brother, Mr. 

 Luther B. Simons, of Mayw-ood, Nebr., who for several years assisted 

 his brother in his work in South America, and who has kindly furnished 

 the facts here given in response to our solicitation. 



Mr. Simons was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, October 6, 1869, 

 where he spent his boyhood on a farm, and took great pleasure in hunting, 

 fishing, and trapping. In 1886 he left his Wisconsin home and went to 

 Riverside, California. He always had a fondness for books, and a 

 strong desire to secure an education. He was graduated from the River- 

 side High School in 1893, and the following year entered Stanford Uni- 

 versity. He spent four years in Stanford, his special course being 

 electrical engineering. During the summer vacations he visited the 

 mountains of California and Arizona, with other Stanford students, to 

 hunt, fish, and collect specimens of birds and mammals, and soon became 



