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rreasurer of the Imerioan Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 

 in th:ii en v, w how he remained About sixteen years, in 1886 he found more 

 congenial occupation as on* of the editors of the 'Youth's Companion,' 

 but he resigned this position in L901 to devote himself exclusively to his 

 own literary work After leaving Weymouth he lived successively in 

 Boston, Melrose Highlands, and Wellesley Hills. Mass. but sinoe the 

 winter of 1907 he had been at Santa Barbara, whether as a mere visitor 

 or as a permanent resident his friends were unable to learn. 



\sa inn and young man Bradford rorrey, though a great reader (eschew- 

 ing fiotion, however), was fond of walking in the woods and fields, but it 

 was not till some time after he had left the country to make his home in 

 Boston that he beoame especially interested in birds or in any form of out- 

 door snul\ lit- has told the story of Ins introduction to ornithology in a 

 sketch entitled 'Scraping Acquaintance' included in the Bret of his hooks. 



This was not his earliest literals venture, however He had written a 

 paper on the birds of Boston fonunon, which, at the instanee of friends 

 who had heard hnn read it, he had sent to the ' \tlantie Monthly, 1 whieh 



printed n m Februarj . 1883 Encouraged by this success, whieh had been 

 quite unlooked for by him, he embarked on what anally became his life 

 work as a writer oi disoursive essays on birds, flowers, and the world out 

 kA doors Man> of lus essa\ s made their first appea ranee in the 'Atlantic' 



Others were printed m the 'Boston I'laiisenpt .' the ' Youth's Companion 



the 'Christian Endeavor World,' and elsewhere, llis first hook. 'Birds 

 in the Bush, 1 was published in Boston in L888 it was followed b] ' \ 

 Rambler's l ease' (1889), ' rhe Foot-Path Way' (1892), 'A Florida Sketch- 

 Book 1 (1894), 'Spring Notes from Tennessee' (1896), ' \ World oi Green 

 Hills' (North Carolina and Virginia] (1898), Everyday Birds' (juvenile) 

 (1901), 'Footingit in Franoonia' (1901), 'The Clerk of the Woods' (1908), 



'Nature's Imitation' k \ew Hampshire. Florida, l'e\as. and ArilOna) 



(1904), and 'Friends on the shelf (literary criticism) (1906) Mr. rorrey 



also edited I'horeau's Journal in fourteen vol nines (1906 and 1907), Shortly 



before ins death he had sent lus publishers copy for a hook to be called 

 'Field Days in California,' whieh is announced for publication in the 

 earl> spring of 1913 



lor inan\ years Mr Porrej spent a part oi the spring, summer or au- 

 tumn at Franoonia in the White Mountains region oi New Hampshire 



and many oi lus most delightful essays are records of lus observations and 

 reflections there, but he also visited other parts of New England (just over 

 the line in the Provinee of Quebec too), and about 1894 he began going 

 South for the late winter and early spring He thus visited Florida, 

 lYnnes-.ee North Carolina, Virginia rexas, Iriiona, and finally Cali- 

 fornia 



At the first meeting of the American Ornithologists' l T nion, in 1883, Mr 

 Torre) was made an Associate Member, and he was elected a Member in 

 1901 when that class was instituted lie was a Resident Member of the 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club from issi to 1886 He published a paper on 



