New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
". H. Hudson Is
Dead; Noted as
w ritter ON Birds
Books Regarded as Final
Authority on Orniflioi-
ogy of The Argentine, in
Which He Passed Youth
Read Largely in America
Many of His Later Works
Were Devoted 10 Bird
and Plant Life i'm England

w. H. Hudson, world famous writer
and naturalist, died at his home in
London on August 18, it was learned in
New York yesterday.
According to mail advices reaching
Mr.. Hudson's several American pub
fishers, the naturalist's death WAS an
expected and he expired while sleeping.
Mr.. Hudson was prolific writer Of
books on nature. He was regarded as
an authority on Argentine and English
ornithology, and his volumes adorned
almost as many book shelves in the
United States as in Great Britain. His
keen interest in the South America he
knew so well as youth was no greater
than his love for the birds and trees of
England, where he passed the last half
Of his life.
AS boy he roarned over the Argen-
tine pampas, living at an estancia, or
ranch. 1t was in these great stretches
OF plains, hardly touched by civiliza-
ton, and at that time, in large meas
ure, as wild as when Columbus discov-
cred America, that Hudson learned to
know nature. He knew the animals
and birds and vegetable life Of the
pampas as intimately as he knew the
hybrid horsemen of that region.
Student of Spanish Literature
Then Hudson from time to time trav-
eled further to the North in che more
tropical countries. He crossed La Plata
into Uruguay, where nature had been
more beneficent than on the pampas
He knew the Spanish language and lit
erature as we'll as his mother tongue
English--and this had an influence in
all Of his subsequent writings.
The fruits Of these years began with
the publication in 1885 of "The Pur-
pie Land Which England Lost" whicl,
dealt with the Republic of Uruguay and
the British conquest of Montevideo in
1907. 1t combined the writer's own ex.
perience in Uruguay with illusions "a
the interesting history Of the BANDA
Oriental, as the country is sometimes
called.
Perhaps the best-known work of Mr.
Hudson's pen was "The Naturalist in
La Plata" published in 1892 and re.
vised and published again under the
same name in 1920. Other books in
cluded Argentine ORTHODOXY" 1898;
Birds in a Village" 1898; idle Days
in Patagonia" 1899; British Birds, 8
| 1895; Birds in London" 1899; mature
in Downland." 1900; "Rirds and Man.
1901; Hampshire Days" 1903; Green
Mansions" 1904; "a Crystal Age
1905; The Lands End" 1908; "Afoo.
in England" 1909; "A Shephcrd's
Life" 1910; adventures Among
Birds" 1913; "History OF Ny Early
Life" 1918; Birds in Town and Vii.
lage," 1919, and "The Eook Of q
Naturalist" 1919.
Portrayed Village Life
Last September MIR. Hudson pub
lished "a Traveller in Little Things" a
book of sketches OF village life in
England. This was his last work.
In al! of his volumes, Mr.. Hudson, be-
cause of his close observation OF birds
and vegetation in different parts of the
world, was able to write more author
itatively on the contrasts and compare
sons than could the average author. He
was regardedsas among the greatest OF
field naturalists and his style of writ
ing found favor with literary critics on
both sides of the Atlantic.
In 1901 Mr.. Hudson was awarded a
civil list pension Of G150 year Sin
recognition of the originality of his
writings on natural history" but he re-
signed it year ago, saying he no
longer was in need of it.