Michigan Ornithological Club 



It is a great pity that a man with his wide experience and ripe 

 judgment, and whose ability to write instructively and entertain- 

 ingly on the subject of ornithology, should have written so little 

 as did our late friend. His letters will be cherished by his ac- 

 quaintances, but it saddens his friends to think- of the wider, but 

 unoccupied field in which his store of ornithological observations 

 might have been more freely recorded, and his good influence 

 might have been wielded to the advantage of a wider circle of 

 readers. 



(FACSIMILE OF PART OF A LETTER TO MR. SAUNDERS.) 



