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game. I do not remember having seen him since that day. 

 All of the young ornithologists I have just mentioned made col- 

 lections of birds around Philadelphia, and these, together with 

 their notes on various species, laid much of the foundation of 

 our present useful data. 



Somewhere along in these years I made the acquaintance of 

 Mr. John Mcllvaine, a retired lumber merchant of West Phila- 

 delphia. He was a delightful old gentleman, and I always re- 

 member him as wearing a high silk hat in his own home. He 

 was still collecting birds, which he mounted in remarkably life- 

 like attitudes. William Freedley was another ornithologically- 

 inclined sportsman and egg-collector. About this time, too, I 

 met William F. Lee of West Chester, Pa., who had he lived 

 would have been my brother-in-law. Lee was an artist in tax- 

 idermy and a good all-round ornithologist. His collection of 

 mounted birds is still at his mother's home in West Chester. 

 What delightful additions Lee and Collins would have made to 

 our coterie of Club members had they lived, both as ornitholo- 

 gists and as companions ! 



Witmer Stone and Stewardson Brown were making a fine col- 

 lection of birds in the Germantown district during the eighties, 

 but I did not meet Stone until he came to the Academy as a 

 Jessup student. I believe that I voice the sentiment of all who 

 know him that he is the bright and particular star in our orni- 

 thological firmament, and that the life and vigor of our Club 

 has been in largest measure due to his broad knowledge and 

 untiring zeal. 



In later days I came to know Charles J, Pennock, and with 

 him I have renewed my youth and enthusiasm in the field. 

 C. J. is an old-time ornithologist and not much of anything 

 rare and desirable gets into Delaware that gets out again, with- 

 out leaving a record of itself in the shape of either hide or note. 

 Pennock began his ornithological life away back in the seventies, 

 but his earlier work was largely about Ithaca, N. Y., and 

 Princeton, N. J., and around his home at Kennett Square, 

 Penna. 



One other ornithologist I must mention, though he was not of 

 our generation and did not regard himself as an ornithologist — 



