ready here. The new picture bulletin showing the birds which 

 breed on Heron Island should interest all who are planning to 

 take the trip. 



The tadpole aquarium is now much depleted in stock, the 

 greater number of the little swimmers having been sent out to 

 the various schools. Those which remain are growing nicely; 

 one greedy fellow has outstripped all the others and changed 

 his black pollywog coat for a suit of genuine tadpole brown. 

 Little legs may be expected to appear any day now. Then we 

 shall begin to call our tadpoles toads and must provide a resting 

 place for them, or some morning we shall look into the aquarium 

 and find them drowned in the water which has been their home 

 since they hatched from the eggs. When a tadpole begins to 

 grow legs it also starts a pair of lungs, and soon its gills, with 

 which it has breathed like a fish up to this time, cease to work 

 and the little toad must have air for its lungs or die. 



Molly, the pine snake, seems to be responding to treatment 

 though still too ill to be handled. It is unusual for a snake 

 similarly afflicted to recover. Special credit is due to Mr. L. 

 W. McGrath, instructor at the Medical College, for the profes- 

 sional skill and care which have preserved her life. 



A fine engraved portrait of Dr. John Bachman has been pre- 

 sented to the Museum through Mr. John F. Ficken. Further 

 notice will appear at a later date. 



The lecture and field work of the department of public in- 

 struction closes with the end of May to recommence next October. 

 The next Museum Calendar will appear in the October number 

 of the Bulletin. 



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