In Memoriam: Stanley Gordon Jewett

STANLEY GORDON JEWETT was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on February 15, 1885, and moved with his family to California in 1895 where he attended school at Berkeley, Alameda, and near Healdsburg. After his father's death in 1897, the family returned to New Brunswick, where he finished grammar school and attended business college at Fredericton. In 1902, he went to Portland, Oregon, and spent a year at the Bartlett Ranch on Government Island, a farm which is now in a state wildlife management area. He went briefly back to New Brunswick, but returned in 1904, and from that time until his death on October 12, 1955, he was a resident of Oregon. The Pacific Northwest was his chosen field of interest, and he left it only for brief intervals on collecting trips. The longest of these was for the Field Museum of Chicago in company with Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood to collect birds and mammals in Colombia and Venezuela in 1910 and 1911. During the interval between 1904 and 1910, he worked at various jobs around Oregon, but, whatever he was doing, he never lost interest in the out-of-doors and particularly in the birds and mammals.