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 THE. CO.B.R Volume X lqoveraber-Deceraber, 191 Number 6 HENRY BARROILHET KAEDING By JOSEPH MAILLIARD WITH PHOTOGRAPH BY W. oTTo EMERSON N ORGANIZATION such as the Cooper Ornithological C!ub may have many members, but few workers, and when the ranks of those who work are thinned the loss is great. While the younger members, and those liv- ing at a distance, may 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 struggles for existence who can understand the full meaning of such loss. Only the per- sonal friends of men like Henry Barroilhet I(,aeding, whose death occurred in Los Angeles on June I2, I913, realize what his absence means to us, or fully ap- preciate the 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 performed by him to promote the Club's welfare and to extend the knowledge 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 i877. He was the son of one of the city's pioneer merchants, "Charlie" Kaeding--a name at one time well known 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 School 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. His 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 I894. Through the exchange of some of