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THE OOLOGIST 



pleasing to the ears of young Jacobs. 

 The County Fair over, the eggs 

 were again placed in the cabinet; and 

 as far as Mr. Jacobs was concerned, 

 the end of public exhibitions. 

 Imagine his surprise, when, in the 

 fall of 1892, he received a letter from 

 Dr. B. H. Warren, State Zoologist, 

 Harrisburg, and author of the fine 

 book, "Birds of Pennsylvania," inquir- 

 ing if a loan of a collection of eggs 

 of the birds indigenous to the state 

 could be arranged for display with 

 other state exhibits at the coming 

 Chicago World's Fair. The collec- 

 tion scanned, resulted in 139 of the 

 species listed by Dr. Warren, as being 

 available, although not all collected 

 within the limits of the Common- 

 wealth; but still being species known 

 to breed within the state were per- 

 missible for display. From the De- 

 partment at Harrisburg, a man was 

 sent to inspect the collection and ar- 

 range for shipment to Harrisburg, 

 where, with other state exhibits and 

 material, it would be consigned to 

 cars for transportation to Chicago. 



Naturally, when he visited this 

 great World's Fair, his first interest 

 centered in his own exhibit, although 

 he arrived at the Exposition on Sep- 

 tember 6, 1893, Pennsylvania Day, 

 when the grounds were thronged 

 with citizens from his own state. 

 Going direct to the Anthropological 

 Building in which, for lack of space 

 in proper buildings, his collection 

 was installed with Dr. Warren's col- 

 lection of wild birds and animal of 

 Pennsylvania, he found the exhibit, 

 and with more than a nominal inter- 

 est read the exhibitor's card which 

 had been prepared and placed on the 

 cases. 



Interesting, indeed, were the hun- 

 dreds of comments he heard, and 

 sometimes, inquiry, of some sort, 

 directed to him, lead to recognition 

 which resulted in many chats with or- 



nithologists and persons in general. 

 While there he met, among others, A. 

 H. Frost, a well known oologist of 

 New York City, and several of the 

 younger oologists of the day. A 

 young man answering to the name of 

 R. M. Barnes, one of the good oolo- 

 gists of the middle west, inquired as 

 to where he could find J. Warren 

 Jacobs, the exhibitor, and being told 

 that he was speaking to his party, ex- 

 claimed in identical words of the Penn- 

 sylvania Executive Commissioner, A. 

 B. Farquer, when he first met Mr. 

 Jacobs, "I expected to see a much 

 older man as exhibitor of this dis- 

 play of eggs." Mr. Barnes may recall 

 questioning the wisdom of risking a 

 collection of eggs in such exhibit; 

 and while the event caused Mr. Jacobs 

 to feel a little shaky in the matter, it 

 is a fact that every egg came back to 

 him, and is in the Museum of Ap- 

 plied Oology today, in as fine condi- 

 tion as before the World's Fair. 



A snug little section directly east 

 of the Pensylvania exhibit, ^was in- 

 stalled by the State of Ohio — an ed- 

 ucational exhibit — ^with a mounted 

 bird and animal collection installed. 

 Interesting, but less so than the pretty 

 girl attendant, whose name he has 

 forgotten, but the memory of her 

 pleasant disposition and courteous 

 ways, has often caused him to wonder 

 if some lucky Ohioan didn't get a 

 fine little wife. 



Just beyond the Ohio section was 

 a New York State exhibit, and there 

 he found the very large display of 

 Frank H. Lattin's, consisting of curio, 

 sea shells and birds' eggs, the bulk 

 of the latter, loaned by many of the 

 readers of the Oologist, of which he 

 was owner and publisher at that time. 

 These eggs were of a souvenir char- 

 acter and were returned to their res- 

 pective owners after the Fair. He 

 met many persons there, who were 

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