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residence in beautiful Pasadena, California's 

 " Crown City." Here he carried on the liter- 

 ary work that had long taken up the greater 

 part of his time, his niunerous publications, 

 both books and magazine articles, treating al- 

 most without exception of the beauties and 

 mysteries of animate nature. His enthusiasm 

 for his favorite theme and his happy facility 

 in expression, combined to make the perusal 

 of his books and papers both a pleaffure and a 

 stimulus for his many readers, as well in this 

 country as abroad. 



His influence in Pasadena, both social and 

 educational, was felt and gratefully recog- 

 nized by his fellow-citizens. He was chosen 

 president of the local board of education, and 

 a trustee both of Throop College of Technol- 

 ogy and of the normal school, and was hon- 

 orary curator of the college museum. From 

 this institute he received a call to fill the chair 

 ■of zoology, but did not accept. However, 

 shortly before his death, he was appointed pro- 

 fessor emeritus of the Charles Frederick 

 Holder chair of zoology, the foundation of 

 which was due to the instrujaentality of his 

 lifelong friend, advisor and encourager. Dr. 

 George E. Hale, director of Mount "Wilson Ob- 

 servatory. The income of the $50,000 raised 

 for this foundation, goes, after Dr. Holder's 

 death, to his widow for her lifetime. 



All movements for the protection of animal 

 life found in him an ardent supporter, 

 whether as member of a society or as its pre- 

 siding officer. He was long a member of the 

 American Scenic and Historic Preservative 

 Society, and in the Wild Life Protection 

 League of America he was president of the 

 department of southern California; he also 

 belonged to the National Conservation So- 

 ciety, the American Game Protective and 

 Propagation Association, the American Fish- 

 eries Society, and was president of the Los 

 Angeles Society for the Protection of Game. 

 He held the office of vice-president in the 

 Audubon Society of California and in the Los 

 Angeles Zoological Society. On the other 

 hand, as a sportsman he has the credit of be- 

 ing the first to catch a leaping tuna, weighing 

 over 100 pounds, with rod and reel, so that the 



catch was a legitimate result of a contest be- 

 tween a fisherman's skill and the strength and 

 activity of his eventual victim. The rod used 

 on this occasion is still to be seen at the Tuna 

 Club on Catalina Island, of which Dr. Holder 

 was the founder, his pen having been the most 

 potent factor in making the island and its 

 neighboring waters a favorite resort for fish- 

 ermen. With Dr. F. F. Rowland he founded 

 the " Tournament of Eoses," one of Pasa- 

 dena's great attractions. 



Socially he was one of the most genial and 

 sympathetic of men. He thoroughly enjoyed 

 social intercourse with those whose interests 

 were like his own, and was ever ready to aid 

 them in realizing their aims. The leading so- 

 cial club of Pasadena, the Valley Hunt Club, 

 was foujided by him, and he was a member of 

 the Twilight Club of that city. Other clubs 

 to which he belonged as member, or honorary 

 member, were: Sunset Club of Los Angeles, 

 Tarpon Club of Texas, Aransas Pass Tarpon 

 Club, South California Rod and Reel Club, 

 Authors' Club of London, Sea Anglers' Club 

 of Glasgow, British Sea Anglers' Society of 

 London, Fly Fishing Club of London, Cast- 

 ing Club of Paris. In 1911 the Academic des 

 Sports of Paris awarded him a gold medal. 

 In a field less exclusively his own, he was a 

 member of the New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences, of the National Geographic Society and 

 the Linnsean Society. 



It is impossible to do more than mention a 

 few of the more notable publications of Dr. 

 Holder, as, for example, " Elements of Zool- 

 ogy " (1885), " Living Lights " (1887), " Louis 

 Agassiz, his Life " (1892), " Along the Florida 

 Eeef" (1892), "Stories of Animal Life" 

 (1900), "HaH-Hours with Nature" (1901), 

 " The Log of a Sea Angler," " Life and Sport 

 in the Open in Southern California," " Big 

 Game Fish at Sea " (1873-76). Among his al- 

 most innumerable magazine papers were a series 

 of articles in Forest and Stream. This repre- 

 sents but a fraction of the literary work of 

 one who by precept and example furthered the 

 true interests of sport, and aroused and fos- 

 tered in a large circle of readers a taste for 

 the observation and study of nature. 



