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had enjoyed every moment of those experiences. He brought from Ireland 
a collection of photographs, bird skins, birds’ eggs, and badger skins. The 
latter were taken by the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard. 
But it was in his day to day work in his home region that he wrote his 
name large. In the preface of the revised edition (1912) of Dr. Chapman’s 
“Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America,” the author announces, 
Mr. Gault and Robert Ridgway at Olney, Ill. 
“In addition to the migratory notes given in preceding editions data are now 
included for Northern Ohio, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and Southeast Missouri.” 
Through this widely distributed, popular handbook the name of Mr. Gault 
became generally known to the ornithological tyros of the land. 
His work for the Illinois Audubon Society covered a period of many 
years. He has been for long an honorary director. His active duties as a 
director ceased, perforce, during the years of his final illness, but his 
interest and advice were unfailing. “A Check List of the Birds of Illinois,” 
published by the Society typifies his thoroughness and accuracy. It was 
issued only after he had conducted an indefatigable correspondence and 
verified all records insofar as it was possible to do so. 
Mr. Gault’s intimates and admirers numbered the members of the 
Chicago Ornithological Society, of which he became a member at the meet- 
ing following its organization more than thirty years ago. He was its 
president in 1929. In 1935 when the Glen Ellyn newspaper listed Mr. 
Gault’s affiliations he was a member not only of the societies already 
named, but of the American Society of Mammalogists, Cooper Club, Illinois 
Academy of Sciences, Kennicott Club, and Wilson Ornithological Club. 
