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of his knowledge. A chief authority on certain groups of the 

 Crustacea, unexcelled as a field naturalist, Dr. Faxon was an 

 admirable type of the scholarly man of science. He gained and 

 retained the confidence of his associates to a remarkable degree; 

 on taxonomic and nomenclatorial questions the soundness of his 

 conclusions and the clarity of his explanations were rrfost convinc- 

 ing. Dr. Faxon bequeathed his books and pamphlets on zoology, 

 palaeontology, and geology to the Museum. Only a small part 

 of this bequest, 399 titles, has been catalogued and added to the 

 Museum's shelves, and though very many of the ornithological 

 works have been forestalled by the William Brewster bequest, the 

 Faxon duplicates will, through our system of exchanges, associate 

 his name with many future accessions. Dr. Faxon's bequest con- 

 tains a unique and probably unequalled collection of the writings, 

 scientific and literary, of Alexander Wilson. 



Samuel Henshaw, 



Director. 



