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CORRESPONDENCE. 



[Correspondents are requested to write briefly and to the point. No attention will 

 be paid to anonymous communications^ 



Frank Bolles. 



To the Editors of 'The Auk' : — 



Dear Sirs: — At a regular meeting of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 

 held February 19, 1894, tne following Memorial of Mr. Frank Bolles, an 

 Associate Member of the A. O. U., who died January io, 1S94, was 

 adopted by the Club for entrance in the Records and the secretary was 

 instructed to communicate it to 'The Auk' for publication. 



This Memorial was written by Mr. Hoffmann for the special committee 

 appointed to prepare it, consisting of Messrs. Brewster, Batchelder, 

 Carruth and Hoffman. 



Yours very truly, 



Francis Beach White, 



Secretary. 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 21, 1894. 



Mr. Bolles's connection with the Nuttall Club, which has been so sadly 

 and unexpectedly severed, dated from December, 1SS7, when he was 

 elected to membership. Throughout the next six 3'ears his interest in 

 the success of the Club was keen, and his attendance, when the nature of 

 his work is considered, extremely constant. He used the opportunity 

 which his connection with Harvard University afforded him to add to the 

 membership of the Club, and his contributions in the shape of papers 

 were of unfailing interest. 



Through the spring of 1892 he served the Club faithfully in the capacity 

 of secretary. His presence at any meeting was a stimulus to both readers 

 and listeners and a guarantee of fruitful discussion of the questions in 

 hand. 



Of the papers which Mr. Bolles has read at various meetings of the 

 Club, some have found their way into his books, while others have 

 appeared in various periodicals. His published works include beside his 

 two books — 'The Land of the Lingering Snow' and 'At the North of 

 Bearcamp Water' — and some scattered notes, an article in the 'New 

 England Magazine' (Vol. VII, p. 93) called 'Bird Traits'; one in the 

 'Popular Science Monthly' (Vol. XLI, p. 313) called 'Ways of the Owl'; 

 and three in 'The Auk,' entitled 'Barred Owls in Captivity' (Vol. VII, p. 

 101), 'Yellow-bellied Woodpeckers and their Uninvited Guests' (Vol. 

 VIII, p. 256) and 'Young Sapsuckers in Captivity' (Vol. IX, p. 109). 



