218 Notes and Neivs. [*g* 



Education Department at Albany, which is devoted to four of my osteo- 

 logical memoirs on birds. They cover the Accipitres, the Anseres, the 

 Gallince, and a special one on the Coccyges. Some two hundred heretofore 

 unpublished figures illustrate the text. 



Very faithfully yours, 



R. W. Shufeldt. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Charles Aldrich, a Fellow and one of the Founders of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, died at Boone, Iowa, March 8, 1908, at the age of 

 80 years. In accordance with a standing order of the Union respecting de- 

 ceased Fellows, a memorial of his life and work will be presented at the 

 next stated meeting of the Union, and published later in 'The Auk'. 



Edward Seymour Woodruff, an Associate Member of the A. O. U., 

 died of typhoid fever at his home in New York city on January 15, 1909. 

 He was the youngest son of Charles Hornblower and Catherine Sanford 

 Woodruff, and was born in New York City on December 23, 1876. He 

 was graduated from the Academical Department of Yale University with 

 the class of '99, afterwards, for a year, pursued a special course in biology 

 at Johns Hopkins University, and later entered the School of Forestry 

 at Yale from which he obtained the degree of Master of Forestry with high 

 honors in 1907. Shortly afterward he received an appointment as State 

 Forester of New York, which post he filled with great ability up to the 

 time of his death. 



Much of Mr. Woodruff's early life was spent at his country home in 

 Litchfield, Conn., and here while wandering in woods and fields he devel- 

 oped a taste for natural history in several of its branches, and cultivated 

 that love of prying into Nature's secrets which is the greatest asset of 

 every true naturalist. He was always deeply interested in ornithology, 

 and leaves behind him a fine collection of birds as a monument of industry 

 and devotion to this science; while the excellent notes and papers which 

 he published gave promise of still more valuable ones to follow. Among 

 them may be cited, as of exceptional value, the carefully prepared list 

 published in 'The Auk' for April, 1908, with title 'A Preliminary List of 

 the Birds of Shannon and Carter Counties, Missouri,' and 'The Ruffed 

 Grouse — A Study of the Causes of its Scarcity in 1907,' published by the 

 Forest, Fish and Game Commission of New York, in 1908. Both are 

 models of their kind, the former dealing with the scientific side of sys- 

 tematic ornithology, the latter covering one of its economic aspects. 



