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Mr. W. E. D. Scott. 
In the person of William Earle Dodge Scott, Birds have 
lost one of their most devoted students. Mr. Scott was 
born in Brooklin, N.Y., in April 1852, the son of Moses 
Warren and Juliet Ann Scott, and, after attending lectures 
at Cornell University for a year, entered the Lawrence 
Scientific School at Harvard as a special student of Natural 
History. 
During Scott's career at Harvard all his spare time was 
devoted to collecting and observing birds. After graduating 
(in 1873) he was appointed (in 1875) Curator of the newly 
founded Museum of Biology at Princeton College. His 
work at Princeton lasted nearly thirty years, but despite his 
poor health and somewhat feeble physique he managed to 
make some interesting and useful excursions during that 
period. 
The winter of 1891-2 was passed in Jamaica. Scott's 
<f Observations on the Birds of Jamaica," which were pub¬ 
lished in f The Auk ’ of 1891, 1892, and 1893, in a series of 
eight papers, contain a mass of information on this subject, 
which should be carefully studied by those who are interested 
in the Ornithology of the Antilles. It gives a complete list 
of all the Birds of Jamaica known to him (212 in number) 
and excellent field-notes on their habits. Other excursions, 
shorter or longer, were made to Florida, Arizona, and Vir¬ 
ginia, so that there were few parts of the United States with 
which Scott did not make himself well acquainted. Details 
on these excursions and a general account of his adventures 
in life will be found in his f Story of a Bird-lover,' one of the 
most interesting books to Ornithologists that the writer of 
this Notice has ever read*. 
In the spring of 1900 Scott came to England and passed 
several weeks of study in the Bird-room of the Natural 
History Museum at South Kensington. Here his English 
correspondents had the opportunity of making his personal 
acquaintance, and a more kind, genial, and well-informed 
* See ‘ Ibis/ 1903, p. 624. 
