



CASSINIA 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELAWARE 

 VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



No. XXIV. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1920-21. 



Stewardson Brown 



BY WITHER STONE 



While technical knowledge and activity in research are 

 admittedly necessary for the successful progress of a club such 

 as ours there would be no club were it not for further qualities 

 exhibited in the membership. There must be personalities 

 that hold us together — that inspire respect and affection and 

 weld bonds of friendship that will not yield with the lapse of 

 time. 



Stewardson Brown possessed such qualities in a marked degree 

 and it is no detriment to his scientific knowledge to say that it 

 it will be in this connection that his memory will be cherished 

 in the years to come by those whose privilege it was to be 

 associated with him. And in the promotion of good-fellowship 

 and in the cheerful and unselfish aid that he rendered both to 

 individual members and to the club, lies perhaps his greatest 

 service to the D. V. O . C. 



I first became acquainted with Brown in the autumn of 1877. 

 I had entered the Germantown Academy, and found among 

 the other new boys who were to be my classmates, the late 



