. Bird lore . / 61*.*^^ -2). tr^ /t/4. 2^irir=1lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XXI September—October, 1919 No. 5 WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1851-1919 Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as theirlives. . Their memories will be encrusted over withsublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other menare overgrown with moss.—Thoreau. WILLIAM BREWSTER died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., onJuly 12 last, seven days after the completion of his sixty-eighth who are familiar with the results of his
. Bird lore . / 61*.*^^ -2). tr^ /t/4. 2^irir=1lore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of The Audubon Societies. Vol. XXI September—October, 1919 No. 5 WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1851-1919 Even the death of friends will inspire us as much as theirlives. . Their memories will be encrusted over withsublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other menare overgrown with moss.—Thoreau. WILLIAM BREWSTER died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., onJuly 12 last, seven days after the completion of his sixty-eighth who are familiar with the results of his studies of birds and ofthe work upon which he was still engaged, can measure the extent of his lossto ornithology; but only those who were so fortunate as to know the man canrealize the nature of the loss sustained by his friends. Brewster never enjoyed rugged health. After his graduation from theCambridge High School, in 1869, his physical condition prohibited his enteringcollege. Fortunately, circumstances permitted him to gratify his inborndesire to study birds. Ever more interested in the living bird than in thedead one, his ornithological
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