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light and dust as well as from other enemies, and 

 look to-day much as they did when they were 

 collected, over twenty-five years ago. 



By the second Commencement after coming to 

 Princeton, the museum began to assume an air of 

 growth and prosperity. There were no longer 

 cases absolutely empty, though the array in some 

 of them was sparse and meagre. 



In the autumn I made a short trip to the coast 

 of New Jersey to secure specimens of gulls, ducks, 

 and sea-birds. The successful undertaking was 

 largely due to one of the trustees of Princeton 

 College, since dead, Henry M. Alexander, Esq., 

 of New York, who always gave generously when- 

 ever asked to aid in building up the new college 

 museum. This trip to the New Jersey coast had a 

 large influence on the work for the coming year. 

 During this short exploration the necessity of de- 

 veloping what might be called the Marine Ornith- 

 ology of New Jersey in the collections became 

 evident, and plans were matured for a protracted 

 stay to that end, at the same point, during the 

 coming spring and summer of the year 1877. 



A shooting lodge, kept by a man named Joe 

 Ridgway, stood some three miles south of Barne- 

 gat Inlet, on the outside beach. Here I made 

 my headquarters. " The beach," as it is called 

 (a long stretch of islands off the Jersey coast), 

 where this lodge was situated, is six miles from 



