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The Days of a Man [1907 



attempts were made to supplant it by baseball, its 

 more energetic and varied American rival. I was 

 myself called on to umpire a baseball game in Sydney, 

 not a brilliant one but fairly good for a starter. 

 Track Track meets are popular, though held on cricket 

 meets and fig^s necessarily very large batting takes place in 

 every direction - - so that the spectators see few of 

 the fine points. But society makes use of these occa- 

 sions by arranging elaborate tea parties in the stands 

 reserved for it. 



The museum naturalists of Australia torm an inter- 

 esting and active group, the fact that the animals and 

 plants of the region are still incompletely recorded 

 adding zest to their study. Naturally I saw a good 

 deal of the ichthyologists, even though I had no time 

 Colleagues for original investigation myself. Among them are 

 three f excellent training and ability: Allan R. 

 McCulloch, curator in the Australian Museum, a 

 man of charming personality and a careful, accurate 

 observer whose judgment in technical matters I value 

 highly; Edgar R. Waite, his esteemed co-worker, then 

 at Christchurch but soon after called to the Museum 

 at Adelaide; and J. Douglas Ogilby, the accomplished 

 curator of fishes in the Queensland Museum at Bris- 

 bane, and author of numerous papers of importance. 

 David G. Stead, the competent scientific expert of the 

 fisheries of New South Wales, is prominent as an 

 advocate of peace, with a large interest in world 

 affairs generally. In 1917, visiting the United States, 

 he came to Stanford as the guest of Gilbert and my- 

 self. In 1918 he paid us the joint compliment of 

 naming his fourth boy Gilbert Jordan Stead. His 



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