5 PEOCEEDINGS. 



deprived the world of much that was worthy of publication, but 

 was carried to such an extreme that the tasks of his biographer 

 have been increased tenfold. 



The portrait which prefaces this sketch was etched from a 

 photograph of the oil painting supposed to have been painted 

 by his son, Joseph Benjamin Ord, now in the gallery of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. It represents 

 him somewhat past middle life. 



George Ord lived to be eighty-five years of age, dying in 1866. 

 He was buried in Old Swedes churchyard, Philadelphia, in the 

 old family plot of the Lindemeyers, Swedish grandparents on his 

 mother's side and early settlers on the Delaware. Not far from 

 Ord'g grave is the simple monument over the tomb of Alexander 

 Wilson, that congenial and gifted fellow-spirit whom fifty years 

 before his comrade had sadly laid to rest. 



A chronological list of George Ord's appointments to honor 

 and service in the two leading American scientific societies of 

 his day are as follows: Elected a member of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, September, 1815; Curator, December, 1815, 

 to December, 1817; Vice-President, December, 1816, to Decem- 

 ber, 1834; and original member of the Publication Committee, 

 1817 to January, 1821, serving again 1832 to 1833. Elected a 

 member of the Philosophical Society, October 17, 1817; Secre- 

 tary, 1820 to 1827 and 1829 to 1831; Vice-President, 1832 to 

 1835; Councilor, 1839; Treasurer and Librarian, 1842 to 1847; 

 and President of the Academy, December, 1851, to December, 

 1858. 



Ord's scientific papers listed in the catalogue of the Royal 

 Society number fourteen, two being in conjunction with Thomas 

 Say. Four relate to birds. His other works comprise the com- 

 pletion of Wilson's Ornithology; two subsequent editions of this 

 work in 1824 and 1828-29, both containing original matter; the 

 "Zoology" in Guthrie's Geography; the Life of Wilson and a 

 beautifully written Life of Thomas Say, another of his friends; 

 and one of C. A. Lesuer, together with his philological con- 

 tributions. 



