498 Obituary. 



XXV.— Obituary. 



Wells Woodbridqe Cooke. 



We regret to announce the death of Prof. W. W, Cooke, 

 wliich took place on the 30th of March last at Washington, 

 from pneumonia after an eight-days^ illness. Prof. Cooke 

 is well known to many of us for his writings on the subject 

 of the migration of North American birds, on wliich he was 

 certainly the leading authority. He was born in Massa- 

 chusetts, January 25, 1858. His family removed to 

 AVisconsin, where he was educated at the Ripon College. 

 Later he became connected with the Indian service in 

 Minnesota and Indian Territory. Between 1886 and 1901 

 he was Professor of Agriculture successively in the University 

 of Vermont and at the Agricultural College at Fort Collins 

 in Colorado ; in the latter year he became an Expert Assistant 

 with the Biological Survey at Washington. Here he was in 

 charge of the voluminous records on migration and distri- 

 bution, and ever since 1881 he has poured out a stream of 

 papers almost all devoted to this subject. These were pub- 

 lished in the official records of the Biological Survey and 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and also in the * Auk * 

 and ' Condor.' He also prepared for the College at Fort 

 Collins a work on the Birds of Colorado, which with two 

 ajipendices appeared in the years 1897-1900. Prof. Cooke's 

 work was distinguished for its accuracy, and from the very 

 large number of records which he had accumulated he was 

 able to deduce many interesting facts in regard to migration 

 routes and other problems, and his death is a great loss to 

 American ornithologists. 



Guy L'Estrange Ewen. 



With regret we have to announce the death of Mr. Ewen, 

 which took [dace at Windsor on the 25th of April, as a 

 result of a severe nervous breakdown. 



Guy L'Estrange Ewen was born on the 26th of November, 

 1860, at York, and was a son of the late Major and 

 Mrs. Eweu. He was educated at Harrow. For about ten 



