FUERTES, LOUIS AGASSIZ (1874-1927), American artist and naturalist, was born at Ithaca, N.Y., on Feb. 7, 1874, youngest son of Prof. Estevan Antonio Fuertes of Porto Rico and Mary Stone Perry Fuertes of New York. He was edu cated at Cornell university and received art training from Abbott H. Thayer. As a painter of birds he was pre-eminent in America during a period of 3o years from 1897 to 1927. Enthusiastic and industrious, he produced abundantly, mainly as an illustrator of popular and technical ornithological books. He painted also a limited number of large pieces, some of which are owned by the New York Zoological Society. His most extensive work was a series of large plates illustrating "The Birds of New York," pub lished by the State and covering practically every species of east ern North America. A similar work for the State of Massachu setts was incomplete at his death. His work is characterized by a fidelity to nature involving not only objective but subjective ac curacy. His genius lay in the power to reproduce subtle, fleeting and intangible qualities of birds which reflected their individuality to a remarkable degree. This was quite as much the result of a highly sympathetic and very extensive knowledge of birds in their haunts as it was of technical skill. His travels covered a wide field in North America, Mexico, West Indies, South America, Europe and Africa. His field experience, therefore, was of the widest.