OAN 19 1898 



THE AUK : 



A CLUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 

 VOL. XV. January, 1898. no. i. 



IN MEMORIAM: 

 CHARLES EMIL BENDIRE.^ 



Born 27TH April, 1S36. Died 4TH February, 1897. 



BY J. C. MERRILL. 

 Frontispiece. 



The American Ornithologists' Union has again suffered the 

 loss of a prominent member and officer, and, in accordance with 

 a standing resolution, the President has called upon the writer to 

 prepare a memorial of the life and work of Charles Emil Bendire, 

 Captain United States Army, retired, brevet Major, who, after an 

 illness of several months, died of Bright's disease at Jacksonville, 

 Florida, on the fourth of February, 1897. This is undertaken not 

 as a perfunctory duty, but as a tribute to one I have known for 

 more than twenty-two years, first as a correspondent, later as an 

 intimate personal friend, our intercourse closing with a letter 

 written by him a few days before his death. 



Karl Emil Bender was born at Koenig im Odenwald in the 

 Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt on April 27, 1836. The eldest 

 of a family of two sons and three daughters, of whom two of the 

 latter now survive, he received private instruction at home up to 



^ An address delivered at the Fifteenth Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, at New York, Nov. lo, 1S97. 



