Cogginst Well» X went first to a put>lie sehooX. Then we 

 moved out to Oermantowii and X went to a prlTate 

 •ehool. Xn nany private aehoolSf I*ve fotindt 

 either becauve they were people of a little more 

 leiaiire or a little more money^ they had time for 

 nattire study and eultural things* One day 

 Vitner Stone, Curator of the Philadelphia Aeademy 

 of Hatural Science, cane to our school and gave a 

 lecture on birds* He had been one of our alunal^ 

 by the way* He brought the bird speeixBens with 

 him and somehow they caught my interest* X had 

 always been interested in animals and I beoajnie quite 

 intex*ested in birds* 



Like many boys X hunted birds* nests and the 

 birds became oheraotera to ma* And X got to know 

 them that way. X Joined the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences when X was old enough and was secretary 

 of the Delaware Valley Field Club^ which was the 

 ornithological section of the Academy. Later when 

 X came to California X was President of i^bm Cooper 

 Ornithological Club, a large organization founded 

 on the West Coast* 



X hare been a member of the American 

 Ornithologists tJnion and the original Pennsylvania 



