George Frederick Kunz

“ Charles Frederick Holder, who passed away on October 10, 1915, in his home at Pasadena, California. At once an enthusiastic sportsman and an enemy to all indiscriminate' destruction of animal life, he possessed a rare blend of qualities sometimes regarded as incompatible one with the other. Something of his repugnance to the reckless slaughtering of animals characteristic of too many hunters, may possibly have been due to the fact that he came of stanch Quaker stock, one of his direct ancestors, Christopher Holder, having founded, in 1656, the first society of Friends in America. ”

“ From his boyhood he showed the taste for hunting and fishing, and at the same time for the study of the habits of birds and fish, that was destined to grow with his growth and become the aim and pleasure of his life. ”

“ In a field less exclusively his own, he was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the National Geographic Society and the Linnaean Society.
⁠It is impossible to do more than mention a few of the more notable publications of Dr. Holder, as, for example, "Elements of Zoology" (1885) , "Living Lights" (1887) , " Louis Agassiz, his Life" (1892) , " Along the Florida Reef" (1892) , "Stories of Animal Life" (1900) , "Half-Hours with Nature" (1901) , " The Log of a Sea Angler," " Life and Sport in the Open in Southern California," "Big Game Fish at Sea " (18.73-76) . ”