Robert Ridgway 
July 2,.1850 March 25; 19290 
Noted Ornithologist and Botanist 
As the bulletin goes to press we learn of the death on 
March 26th after a short illness of our esteemed friend 
Robert Ridgway, America’s most eminent Ornithologist. 
Since the beginning of the movement to establish at 
Bird Haven an Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary, many 
thousands of people have learned about Mr. Ridgway 
and his work. 
His death brings home to us the urgency of completing 
the Memorial and thereby doing honor to one of Illinois’ 
most illustrious sons. 
Few men have accomplished more in a life span than 
has Robert Ridgway. His work will live and he will not 
be forgotten while ornithology is studied. 
More than sixty years of Dr. Ridgway’s life were spent 
as an employee of the United States, where he gave his 
best years and efforts to the problems of bird study and 
the highly necessary work of re-forestation in IIlinois. 
