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Volxjme XV 
November-December, 1913 
Number 6 
FIENRY RARROILHET KAEDING 
By JOSEPH MAILLIARD 
WITH PHOTOGRAPH BY W. OTTO EMKRSON 
A n organization such as the Cooper Ornithological Club may have 
many members, but few workers, and when tbe ranks of those who work 
arc thinned the loss is great. While the younger members, and those liv- 
ing at a distance, ma}^ have an indefinite feeling of loss when one of these is taken 
away, it is only the older members who have in mind the Club’s earlier struggdes 
for existence who can understand the full meaning of such loss. Only the per- 
sonal friends of men like Henry Barroilhet Kaeding, whose death occurred in 
Los Angeles on June 12, 1913, realize what his absence means to us, or fully ap- 
preciate tbe results of the deep interest he showed in Club matters and the 
amount of work — some of which many of us would call drudgery — cheerfully 
lierformed by him to jiromote the Club-'s welfare and to extend the kmowledge 
of the wonderful bird-life on this side of the North American continent. 
Henry B. Kaeding, or “H. B.'”, as many of us familiarly addressed him, 
was born in San Francisco in 1877. He was the son of one of the city's pioneer 
merchants, “Charlie” Kaeding — a name at one time well knowm to most lovers 
of rod and gun on the Pacific Coast. While his more youthful education was ac- 
quired in the public schools his natural leaning toward scientific pursuits led him 
to enter the California vSchool of Mechanical Arts, where he remained for some 
time.- After this, with the exception of a few months with the then (and present) 
city chemist, he continued his own education persistently and independently. 
At what age his love of natural history first asserted itself the writer does 
not know, but from 1892 to 1896 he was mining and studying in Amador County, 
California, and it was during this period that he commenced making a study and 
a collection of the birds of his immediate vicinity. Elis records of this period, 
which have been in the writer’s possession for some years, show that he first com- 
menced systematically to record the ornithological specimens taken by his brother 
Charles and himself in the later part of 1894. Through the exchange of some of 
