6 THE: AUDUBON Biel t Cela 

Ridgway Memorial Fund 
HE small amount of the pension allotted to employees of the 
Government on their reaching the retirement age is a serious 
matter to thousands of faithful servants of Uncle Sam. Many 
men leave work that they enjoy doing because of fear of the future. 
Others remain loyal to their departments and stay in spite of almost 
certain penury at the end of a life of service. One of the finest examples 
of long years of faithful and unselfish service is that of Robert Ridgway, 
noted ornithologist and botanist of our own state. 

Photograph by Orpheus M. Schaniz 
RuTHVEN DEANE, RoBert Ripeway, R. F. Powers 
At the meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union in New York 
City, in November, 1925, Dr. Frank M. Chapman presented the idea of 
making Bird Haven a wild life refuge as a memorial to Mr. Ridgway. 
The project was endorsed by the American Ornithologists’ Union at 
this meeting, and a committee authorized to consist of a representative 
from the American Ornithologists’ Union, one from the Wilson Or- 
nithological Club, and one from the Cooper Ornithological Club of 
California. These two other organizations later also gave their approval. 
