ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



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In Memoriam 



John L. Devi n i 



Mr. John L. Devine, for many years a director of the Illinois Audubon 

 Society, and widely known in the middle west among those interested in 

 the study of ornithology, died at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, January 

 j lth, after an illness of four months. 



Mr. Devine was a native of Ohio but spent most of his boyhood and 

 early manhood in Hardin County, Iowa. He was educated at West Point 

 and at Ann Arbor and he first came to Illinois as Superintendent of the 

 Evanston Schools. He held that position for five years and then went into 

 the real estate business which engaged his attention until his appointment 

 on the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1916. He was 

 serving in this capacity when his last illness came upon him. 



Mr. Devine had a lifelong interest in birds and was a discriminating 

 student of bird types, the economic significance of birds, etc. He was the 

 second president of the Chicago Ornithological Society and for many years 

 an Associate Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. He was long 

 identified with the Illinois Audubon Society and for years was a valuable 

 member of the Board of Directors, his service as a director terminating only 

 two years ago when his business duties called him away from the city. His 

 associates and even those who came only into casual relationship with him 

 felt the force of his kindly personality. This seems to have been the reflex 

 of his contact with books and men and with the great out-of-doors. His 

 loss will be deeply felt by his many friends. 



J. C. Van Duzer 



The Rockford Nature Study Club has suffered a great loss in the death 

 of Sergeant J. C. Van Duzer which oc- 

 curred at Fort Bliss, New Mexico, in 

 October. He had enlisted as a photog- 

 rapher expecting to go to France, but 

 instead he was sent to El Paso, Texas, 

 where he remained on border duty for 

 eighteen months. At the time of his 

 death he was serving as a member of 

 Company C, 9th Engineers Mounted. 

 He had accepted his assignment on 

 the border in good part and in time his 

 photography and topographic work 

 took him to the mountains of New 

 Mexico, and this enabled him to enrich 

 his knowledge of bird life of the South- 

 west. Lack of time and proper equip- 

 ment prevented a more intensive study 

 of the birds in his new environment 

 but he found much of interest, and 

 usually identified strange birds by veri- 

 fying his notes with books in the public 

 library at El Paso. These records were 

 all sent home and entered in his "log." 



