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Bulletin 49, 'Alkali Lakes and Deposits'; and Bulletin No. 55, 'The 

 Birds of Wyoming.' 



A list of other publications which appeared in 'Science,' 'The Engi- 

 neering and Mining Journal,' 'The American Manufacturer and Iron 

 World,' ' Mineral Industry,' ' American Journal of Science,' ' National 

 Geographic Magazine,' 'Journal of Geology,' 'Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America,' Reports of the U. S. Geological Survey, and other 

 periodicals of high standing, would include about forty titles, all of which 

 were exploitations of the results of original research and painstaking 

 investigation. 



Of his bulletins, No. 55, 'The Birds of Wyoming,' is the only one 

 devoted to the subject in which the readers of ' The Auk ' have especial 

 interest. While ornithology was a subject of secondary interest to Prof. 

 Knight, the character of his bird work is in every way commendable. 

 In his introductory to this bulletin the author says : "Being a geologist 

 it may appear strange for me to pose as the author of a bird bulletin." 

 One thing, however, was made plain ; there was a great public demand 

 for such a bulletin. It may be said, also, that such demand was supplied 

 by this publication. It is interesting to note in this connection, that 

 the demand for this publication shows that its popularity is greater than 

 that of any other bulletin issued by authority of the Wyoming University. 

 That extreme care and anxiety to be strictly accurate which marks all of 

 the published works of Prof. Knight, is conspicuous here, the author's 

 aim being to secure a correct list of Wyoming birds rather than a large 

 one. A hypothetical list at the close of the bulletin supplied a place for 

 species manv less careful authors would have placed among the unques- 

 tioned birds of the State. 



As a citizen and a man Prof. Knight stood in the first rank. He 

 believed the interests of the community and of the State should command 

 a reasonable share of the time and energy of the individual and he gave 

 freely of both for the promotion of the general welfare. He died poor 

 in worldly goods but rich in worthy accomplishments. His integrity, 

 unassailable and unquestioned, often stood in the way of pecuniary 

 advancement, but his record, now made up, is one his sons may emulate 

 without fear of making a mistake. In his untimely death the American 

 Ornithologists' Union loses an able and painstaking student and 

 Associate. — F. B. 



Dr. GusTAV F. R. von Radde, a Corresponding Fellow of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithologists' Union, died early in the present year at Tiflis, Russia, 

 in his 72d year. He was born at Danzig, November 27, 1S31. From a 

 short sketch of Dr. Radde's life published in 'The Ibis' (July, 1903, pp. 

 439, 440) we learn that he was the son of a schoolmaster, and early 

 showed his predilection for Natural History. In 1S52 and the following 

 years he was employed in the Crimea as an assistant to the botanist 

 Steven, and in 1854 published a memoir on the botany of the Tauric 



