342 Notes and News. ie 
Also, when this sequence of genera, species, etc., has been rearranged, 
let a host of various subspecies be subjected to the most rigid examination, 
so that the presence or absence of a certain shade of color, a spot or a 
streak here or there is not made sufficient basis to found a subspecies on. 
Milton, Wes. Lupwic KUMLIEN. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
RoBERT Hor LAWRENCE, an Associate Member of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union, died at Danville, Ill., on the 27th of April, 1897. 
For a number of years he was a frequent contributor to ‘The Auk.’ In 
1892 he published an account of the birds of the Gray’s Harbor region 
(Vol. IX, 1892, pp. 39-47,. 352-357), where he had spent almost a year in 
one of the dense forests of Washington. 
Mr. Lawrence was a son of DeWitt C. Lawrence, of New York, and a 
grandson of Richard M. Hoe. He was born in New York, October 16, 
1861. From his early boyhood he showed a great love of nature and 
out-door life. Much of his life he had spent in travel, and for the last 
seven years he had lived on the Pacific Coast, in Washington, Oregon, 
and Southern California. 
Always a lover of nature, he became in his later years especially inter- 
ested in ornithology. He was drawn to the study of birds by his love of 
music and his sense of beauty. His trained ear found in the notes of 
birds suggestions of the themes of Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin, his 
favorite composers. He had besides a strong feeling for art and letters; 
but what endeared him to his friends and makes his memory precious 
was his faithfulness to his ideals of true and pure manhood. 
PROFESSOR EDWARD DRINKER CopPE died at his home in Philadelphia, 
April 12, 1897, at the age of nearly 57 years, he having been born July 28, 
1840. In his death science has lost one of the greatest naturalists America 
has yet produced. As a vertebrate zodlogist and paleontologist, the 
world has seen few that can be ranked as his equal. Although not 
especially recognized as an ornithologist, as he published little on recent 
birds, he is known to have possessed, and on occasions displayed, a 
profound general knowledge of the class, and to have had a good field 
knowledge of the birds of eastern North America. In other departments 
of vertebrate zodlogy he has long been recognized as one of the highest 
authorities, especially in reptiles, both recent and extinct, while his 
contributions to mammalian paleontology have been almost unrivalled. 
He is also the author of several epoch-making schemes of classification, 
including especially one of fishes, and is properly recognized as one of the 
chief founders of the Neo-Lamarckian school of evolutionists, of which he 
was one of the most able exponents. He was gifted with a powerful 
