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made collections of the sea birds just before the millinery slaughter 

 all but exterminated them, and later Morris was a regular visitor 

 to Cape Charles, Va., where wild life was still largely undisturbed, 

 and at Eaglesmere in the mountains of Pennsylvania. In 1889, 

 yielding to the urge for wider fields, he spent some months in 

 Florida in the vicinity of Tampa Bay and made the acquaintance 

 of many birds entirely new to him, and finally in 1892, he, with 

 Rhoads and J. W. Evans, visited Washington and British Col- 

 umbia, collecting mainly on Puget Sound and American Lake. A 

 trip to England at the time of his marriage in 1895, gave him 

 personal acquaintance with the birds of Old England, which he 

 knew well from literature, and in later years, canoe trips through 

 the wilder streams of Maryland and Virginia were his delight. 

 Here he found the Carolina Wrens in all their glory and the golden 

 Prothonotary Warblers flashing among the cypress swamps. 



While a keen field student, the gun always appealed to Morris 

 rather than the glass as the proper weapon for the ornithologist and 

 he could not picture his favorite Audubon with a pair of binoculars. 

 At the same time he was a very careful and moderate collector, 

 made no attempt to secure large series and was heartily in sympathy 

 with every effort for bird protection serving as a director of the 

 Pennsylvania Audubon Society. 



While Morris wrote well he published but little, most of his 

 writings appearing in 'Cassinia' in the maintenance of which he 

 took great interest. In 1895 he published 'Notes and Extracts 

 from a Letter of Edward Harris' in 'The Auk'; while on his return 

 from the Florida trip in 1890 he published an account of it in 

 'The Student,' and to 'Recreation' for April 1910 he contributed 

 'A Flood-water Cruise through a Cypress Swamp.' He wrote a 

 number of papers dealing with outdoor life and bird study which 

 he read before the Club or other societies but which he never 

 pubhshed, among the best of which are the ten bird biographies 

 which he contributed to the Club's proposed work on the 'Birds 

 of the Delaware Valley.' 



To those of us who had been so closely associated with him it 



was sad to see the approach of the illness that eventually caused 



his death, and we missed him at the Club meetings when he was 



ompelled to spend his last winters in the milder climate of Florida. 



