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 A MAOAZIAIE OF VrESTERAI ORAIITHOLOOY BI-Monthly Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club Vol. 4. No. 5- Santa Clara, Cal., September-October, 1902 $i.oo a Year IN MEMORIAM: Dr. James G. Cooper. UR beloved honorary member and distinguished naturalist, Dr. James G. Cooper has passed away, and with him we lose a man of sterling worth and lofty character, a mau who has gained an enviable reputa- tion in his chosen subject of Natural History, and who has left many and valu- able works in the field of Ornithology.  It seems but a few years since I first met this slender gentle- man in the small country postoffice which he held in connection with the only drug store in Haywards. That was in 877. Three years ago last March he sat among us, for the last time in public, for Baird in the early days of the Smith- sonian Institution. Dr. CoopeWs life was one of strong work, earnestly done, as one who clear- ly saw the facts of natural science, and who fully appre- ciated the bearing of one branch of zo- ology upon another, and upon allied sub- jects. This will be noted in his early study of forests and distribution, and many are the younger zoologists who will think of him in future years when they consult his work on the coast faunal ranges. He was a man who could lead you in paths of Nature to the haunts of birds, to the lurking places of shells, or to hidden fossils, and could rocks, trees and plants hills and plains. Dr. Cooper is best known to us by his works on conchology and ornithology. the study of his favor- on. aaMrs G. cooPt.. ite work, ornithology. eo,,,,j,,,,e ,to, ,80. Died July '9, ,9o-'. Tho not of a strong constitutio has you the been thelast to answer the finalcall of the of the mountains, Creator, of that original group of natur- alists gathered around the side of Prof.