of its most productive workers and leaders—Harold A. Burger, Fred 
Hume, and Stratford Lee Morton. 
Fred Hume was an outstanding member of the Academy. Hume 
had been both Chief Engineer and Board Member for the International 
Shoe Company. He supervised the remodelling of the Oak Knoll 
buildings for the Museum. 
Harold Aten Bulger died in 1966 at the age of 74. He joined the 
Academy in 1930 and remained active until his death. A physician, 
Bulger received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1920. He 
joined the faculty of Washington University five years later and spent 
the rest of his professional life there before retiring in 1955. During 
his tenure he was on the staff of Barnes Hospital; he also served as 
Director of Medical Services at Homer J. Phillips Hospital. He special- 
ized in metabolic disorders. 
Bulger had many other interests in addition to medicine, including 
natural history and the history of the American West. His preoccupa- 
tion with the West found many outlets. For example, he became con- 
vinced that James White, whose story of passing through the Grand 
Canyon was discredited by John Wesley Powell, had been the first 
European-American to see that magnificent place. He researched the 
subject exhaustively and wrote several articles in which he defended 
White’s claim. 
Bulger’s love of natural history was expressed in numerous ways. 
He was an active member of the rather select St. Louis Naturalist Club 
to which he often lectured on subjects such as ‘‘Barbs and Barbules 
of Bird Feathers.’’ He usually illustrated his talks with striking 
photographs he shot himself. - 
During his lifetime Bulger served the Academy in several capacities, 
acting at various times as its librarian, a curator, and as a member of 
its program committee. Besides his activity in the Academy, he took 
part in many other professional and amateur science and historical groups 
such as the Astronomical Society, the Audubon Society, and the 
Historical Association of Greater St. Louis. Furthermore, Bulger founded 
the St. Louis Westerners, a group devoted to the study of Western history 
and lore.32 
Dr. Harold A. Bulger was an exceptionally intelligent and en- 
thusiastic individual whose energy and interests knew no bounds; he 
was a ‘Renaissance Man’ in the tradition of Academy founders George 
Engelmann and Friedreich Wislizenus. 
Stratford Lee Morton had more in common with businessman Pierre 
Chouteau, perhaps, than he did with Engelmann or the other founders 
of the Academy. Like Chouteau, Morton was a successful entrepreneur 
and an avid collector. Morton shared with all the founders a deep-seated 
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