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THE OOLOGIST 



Sorrow. 



George E. LaGrange, nephew of the 

 Edtor, aged 21 years, 1 month and 25 

 days, passed away at Columbus, Ne- 

 braska, on September 24, 1911, death 

 being due to a sudden and malignant 

 attack of anterior peilo myelitis. 



Thus closes at its very beginning, 

 what all believed wa^ a brilliant 

 career. The deceased's home was at 

 Redlands, California. He was headed 

 for the law business, intending ulti- 

 mately to associate himself with the 

 writer in practice. A mind, brilliant 

 away beyond the ordinary, he was a 

 natural student; completing at a very 

 early age the usual Eighth Grade 

 course of study in a rural Nebraska 

 school, graduating from the Genoa, 

 Nebraska High School at the age of 

 fifteen, at the front of his class, then 

 going into the Harvard Military 

 School at Los Angeles, which course 

 he completed in two years, leaving a 

 record that many might be proud of. 

 He entered Stanford University at the 

 age of seventeen, and graduated at 

 the end of a four-year course, winning 

 one of the golden keys given annually 

 by that University for excellence in 

 scholarship, intending ultimately to 

 complete his law course at Harvard 

 University. 



He is taken from us at a time when 

 we apparently can least spare him, 

 and while he leaves behind him a 

 spotless, blameless life, he enters the 

 Unknown World with a confidence on 

 the part of his friends that is truly 

 absolute. 



He had the physique of an athlete, 

 was a master of four languages, a fin- 

 ished musician, had a splendid educa- 

 tion and with six feet of real man, 

 hood, seemed to possess an equipment 

 that assured a splendid future. In his 

 death we have received the greatest 

 blow that has ever fallen across our 

 life. The only writing he ever did 



for publication so far as we know, is 

 the article on Mexican travel at page 

 102 of Vol. xxvii of The Oologist. 



Joseph Marshall Wade. 



An Appreciation. 



We do not see, nor do we feel the 

 worth of a man's service to us, until 

 lie has past from our midst. 



Jos. M. Wade, as he was known to 

 the n:.any bird students of thirty years 

 ago, was only by his being the publish- 

 er of "The Oologist," and later on, en- 

 larged into the "Ornithologist and 

 Oologist," he was one, who did not 

 seek for the society of the world at 

 large, but, much preferred to take the 

 silent wood paths of natures wild sub- 

 jects as his companions. And, still 

 to those who could call him friend', 

 he was helpful and true to the last 

 days of his life. 



Mr. Wade was born at the village 

 of New Worthley, near Leeds, Eng- 

 land, March 7, 1832, and passed away 

 at his home in Dorchester, Boston, 

 Mass., January 22, 1905. His early ed- 

 ucation was attended at the "Armley 

 Church Day School," at his old Eng- 

 lish home. When not in the school 

 room, was found rambling the fields 

 and woods observing the workings of 

 natures subjects. He soon acquired 

 an unlimited knowledge of the habits 

 of birds, tree and plant life, would not 

 not lead you through the scientific 

 terms as were written in the rusty 

 old tomes, but would relate all the in- 

 teresting facts regarding their lives 

 and local names. 



Soon after leaving school at the age 

 of 17, he went to work, and in 1850 

 came with his parents to the United 

 States, locating at the town of Law- 

 rence, Mass., where he entered the 

 weaving mills with his brother; and 

 with no teaching or apprenticeship; 

 he from a common weaver became 

 the leading designer of American 



