CASSINIA 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELAWARE 

 VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



No. XXI. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1917. 



Samuel Wright. 



BY WITMER STONE 



There was established at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 many years ago, by members of the Jessup family, a scholar- 

 ship for the purpose of aiding young men in the study of Natural 

 History. Many of the beneficiaries have attained greater or 

 less eminence in science, while some who from force of circum- 

 stances were compelled to enter other fields of activity have had 

 their love of nature so strengthened by their associations at the 

 Academy, that Natural History has ever remained for them a 

 delightful recreation from the tedium of a business life. 



The writer became a student on the Jessup Foundation in 

 1888, this being the only position available in which he could 

 pursue ornithological study at the Academy and care for the 

 then long neglected collection. In December 1891, Samuel 

 Wright, a school-boy nine years his junior, also accepted a 

 Jessup scholarship, and being more interested in birds than in 

 other subjects became associated with him in the care of the 

 collections. This intimate association, lasting until Wright's 

 departure from the Academy to enter a business career, devel- 

 oped a friendship that endured until his death and became 

 ever more cherished as the years rolled by. 



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