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Mr. Slevin received his school education at St. Ignatius College, San 

 Francisco. From his father and mother, he learned to speak French 

 fluently. He was a member of the California Academy of Sciences, its 

 Section of Ornithology, and the Cooper Ornithological Club. 



He had in a marked degree that inborn gift to recognize at a glance 

 and remember the differences in specimens. An exotic species once seen, 

 its characters were indelibly fixed in his mind. If ornithology had been 

 to him a profession, rather than his recreation, he would have attained 

 distinction as a systematic ornithologist. He loved ornithology for the 

 sake of ornithology — not for scientific eminence or for position. Within 

 a few days of his death, in the closing hours of a long, painful illness, he 

 had his mother read to him the bird portion of 'North American Fauna 

 No. 22,' which had just reached him. Two days before the end, he told me, 

 with a smile, that Ridgway had come, meaning he had received Part II of 

 ■* The Birds of North and Middle America.' 



Mr. Slevin's preeminent characteristic was truthfulness ; he was a man 

 whose word could be absolutely relied upon. — L. M. L. 



George H. Ready, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, died at his home in Santa Cruz, California, March 20, 1903, in 

 his 45th year. From a notice of Mr. Ready in ' The Condor ' (V, p. 82) 

 we learn that he was born in Placerville, Placer County, California, 

 August 5, 1S5S, but while still a boy went to Santa Cruz, which became 

 his permanent home. "Four years ago, from overwork and exposure, he 

 contracted a cold from which he never recovered. He spent several years 

 in Phoenix, Arizona, hoping the dry air of that region would restore his 

 health. But he afterwards wisely concluded that the comforts of a home 

 in Santa Cruz would be a greater solace and quite as likely a restorer .... 

 He was an amateur ornithologist, and the birds of the region in and about 

 Santa Cruz and Phoenix were his familiar friends, few knowing their 

 haunts as well as he." 



Mrs. E. S. Mogridge, well known in this country and in England as a 

 modeler of plant accessories for bird groups, and for groups illustrating 

 the life history of insects injurious to forest trees, died at Springfield, 

 Mass., April 5, 1903. While at this writing we know little of her early 

 personal history, it is proper that some record should be here made of 

 her services to science, through her facsimile reproductions of foliage, 

 flowers, and other plant accessories for various American Museums. In 

 this she was assisted by her brother, Mr. H. Mintorn. They first worked 

 on accessories for insect groups for Lord Walsingham, and for bird 

 groups at the South Kensington Museum, London, where, about 1885 or 

 1886, their work attracted the attention of Mr. Morris K.. Jesup, Presi- 

 dent of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Mrs. 

 Mogridge frequently visited New York, where she had many friends, and 



