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BY the death of Mr. Stuart Baker on April 16 at the age of seventy-nine, ornithology, and especially Indian ornithology, has lost one of its most eminent exponents. He was born in 1864; after being educated at Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon, he followed his father's career in entering the Indian Police Force in 1883. Nearly all his service was spent in Assam, then, even more so than now, a wild mountainous region peopled by primitive and savage tribes, which offered unbounded opportunities for sport and the observation of wild life, of which he took every advantage. He rose to be officiating inspector of police for the Province in 1910; in 1912 he was selected to reorganize the special police force of the Port of London Authority, a post which he held until he retired in 1925.
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SCLATER, W. Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, C.I.E. Nature 153, 580 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153580a0
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