the time of our first lesson in bird-life; he sitting on a 

 rock in the shadow of the trees, and the student watch- 

 ing the birds which he noted as they flew about us or 

 jumped from stone to stone, making the air vibrate 

 with their music. 



Eighteen years ago! What a vista of time is here 

 unrolled. What changes this period has wrought, yet 

 in memory he is again giving his first field lesson, tak- 

 ing the Rock Wren for an object study as it sits on a 

 huge blue-gray rock singing to us its song of welcome. 

 Here he talked to us of Nature in all of her varied 

 forms; told of the birds, their songs, their flights, plum- 

 age and their homelife; of their loves and hates, joys 

 and sorrows! All of this was told in common language, 

 without scientific nomenclature, and thus we saw 

 Nature and her works through the eyes of one who 

 loved and had long questioned and learned many of 

 her secrets, until the setting sun found us yet worship- 

 ing in Nature's temple, and the student gaining his 

 first glimpse into that grand arcana. This was our 

 teacher's manner; thus he gathered around him the 

 young ornithologists and in the field taught them the 

 lessons of bird-life, and it was from the incentives of 

 these field studies that our Club was formed, and in his 

 honor named, and at the Club meeting held December 

 5, 1896, he was by unanimous vote placed on our roll as 

 an Honororary Life Member. 



The Secretary of the Club, Mr. C. Barlow, fully ex- 



