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regular attendant at the D. V. 0. C. meetings, he was deeply 

 interested in the Club and its work and was one of its most gen- 

 erous and earnest supporters. Shortly before his death he pre- 

 sented a beautifully mounted series of local birds to the D. V. O. 

 C. which practically completed its local collection. Mr. Rawle 

 endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact and in 

 his death, we realize, the Club has lost a valuable member and 

 a generous supporter, while the members will miss a true friend. 



Ernest Mekwyn Evans 

 1884-1911 



Ernest Evans joined the Club as an Associate Member in 1899, 

 at the age of fifteen. As a boy he early showed a deep love for 

 nature and out-door life — a love which never left him — though 

 he did not become an active member of the Club, nor during the 

 later years of his life was he able to devote much time to the 

 serious study of ornithology. He was, however, a keen observer 

 and took much interest in recording the arrival and departure 

 of the birds and their nesting habits around his beautiful home 

 at " Awbury ", Germantown. While at school and college he 

 spent many summers with his family on Conanicut Island, 

 Narragansett Bay, and was always greatly interested in the birds 

 of that section of Rhode Island. 



Ernest Evans's sudden and tragic death revealed him a true 

 hero to all; but to those, who were privileged to know him best, 

 he will ever be remembered as a young man of great upright- 

 ness and strength of character, combined with a rare thought- 

 fulness for others and a certain gentleness of spirit, which seldom 

 expressed itself more perfectly than in his appreciation of 

 Nature and of Nature's songsters. 



