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fidelity. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and 

 during his earlier life taught school for twenty years in Westbrook and 

 neighboring towns. 



From early life he was enthusiastically interested in birds, and for 

 many years was an authority on the birds of southern Connecticut. He 

 had gathered a nearly complete collection of the birds, and their nests 

 and eggs, of his region,.and from time to time for many years contributed 

 interesting notes of his discoveries to various natural history journals, 

 notablj' to ' The Auk,' and its predecessor, the ' Bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club.' He was the first to make known the nest and eggs 

 of the Little Black Rail, two nests of which were discovered by him at 

 Saybrook, Conn., respectively in 1876 and 1884. 



Mr. Clark was a regular attendant at the annual Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, participating in its proceedings, and 

 where his presence was always welcomed as a pleasant feature of the 

 occasion. He was absent from the last Congress, but contributed, as 

 usual, to the program of the meeting. His last paper, entitled 'The 

 Domestic Affairs of Bob-white,' is published in the present number of 

 'The Auk' (pp. 161-164). He had many warm friends among the older 

 members of the A. O. U., by whom his memory will be long cherished, 

 not less for his amiable personality than as an ardent field student of 

 birds. 



Edward Stanley Waters, an Associate of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union since 1894, died at his home in Holyoke, Mass., December 

 27, 1902, at the age of 71 years. He was born March 32, 1831, at Salem, 

 Mass., where his family had resided for several generations, and where 

 his father was judge of the Salem police court. After a preparatory 

 course at the Salem Academy he entered Harvard University, but ill 

 health prevented his graduation. He became, however, a civil engineer, 

 and at the outbreak of the civil war he joined the Engineer Corps, and 

 was soon assigned to the staff of General Burnside, and later to that of 

 General Meade. Although engaged throughout the remainder of his life 

 in engrossing business affairs, he was greatly interested in natural 

 history, especially in botany and geology, and evidently in ornithology, 

 although he published little if anything relating to these sciences. He 

 was an expert hydraulic engineer, and the construction of the big dam at 

 Holyoke, across the Connecticut River, and one of the largest in the 

 country, is a monument to his engineering skill. At the time of his 

 death, and for many years previously, he was the treasurer and agent of 

 the Holj'oke Water Power Company. He was recognized as a man of 

 high moral tone, but is said to have never mingled much in social life or 

 in politics, belonging to but one organization, the Holyoke Horticultural 

 Club. He is survived by two brothers, one of whom is Henry Fitzgilbert 

 Waters, of Melrose, Mass., the well-known genealogist. 



