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known for his contributions to Professor Baird's great work 

 on North American birds, published in 1858, and forming 

 Volume IX. of the Reports of Explorations and Surveys 

 for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the 

 Pacific Ocean, conducted by the War Department of the 

 United States, the parts relating to the Longipennes, the 

 Totipalmi and the Brachypteri being from the pen of Mr. 

 Lawrence. Aside from this, his published writings, num- 

 bering some 120 titles, relate mainly to'the birds of Mexico, 

 Central America, South America and the West Indies, of 

 which he described over 300 species as new to science. 



" Mr. Lawrence was an associate and friend of Audubon, 

 and at the time of his death formed almost the last link of 

 the chain connecting the earlier ornithologists with the 

 workers of to-day. He was not only one of the founders of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union and one of its first 

 Councillors, but in 1890 received the distinction of being 

 the first, and thus far the only, American ornithologist 

 elected to Honorary Membership in that body. His at- 

 tainments were widely recognized abroad, he having been 

 elected to honorary or corresponding membership in many 

 foreign societies and academies, as well as to those of his 

 own country. 



" Personally he was endeared to his many friends and sci- 

 entific associates by his modesty and great amiability of 

 character. Although of late years he was rendered com- 

 paratively inactive in the scientific field by the infirmities of 

 advanced age, his memory will be long cherished, not only 

 among ornithologists, but by those privileged to have been 

 honored with his personal acquaintance. His interest in 

 ornithology was developed at an early age, and, later inten- 

 sified and stimulated by his life-long intimacy with the late 

 Professor Baird, was as keen during the later months of his 

 life as at earlier periods." 



L. S. Foster, 

 (Signed.) J. A. Allen, 



Frank M. Chapman, 



Committee. 



