The OoLOGisT. 



Vol. XXVII. No. 1. Albion, N. Y. January 15, 1910. Whole No. 270 

 Publislud Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. 



PERSONAL 



The well known bird student, P. G. 

 Howes, of Stamford, Connecticut, is 

 now in Europe, our last communica- 

 tion from him being from Paris. He 

 expects to remain abroad until some- 

 time in April and has promised us a 

 number of interesting notes on Euro- 

 pean birds, and particularly of Ameri- 

 can birds which have been transplant- 

 ed to that territory. We are sure they 

 will be appreciated by our readers. 



We have just received a letter from 

 our eld friend, S. B. Ladd, now of 

 Reading, Pennsylvania. In years past 

 Mr. Ladd was well known as a leading 

 Oolcgist and an active collector, and 

 exchanged much with collectors 

 throughout the country. Of late Mr. 

 Ladd has done little in oology and our 

 letter was the first communication we 

 have had from him for more than fif- 

 teen j'ears. As usual with the older 

 boys, he accompanies the letter with 

 a request for a sample copy of THE 

 OOLOGIST. 



We attended a meeting of the South- 

 ern Division of this flourishing 

 California Bird organization at 

 Lcs Angeles, December 30th 1909, 

 and there had the the pleasure of 

 meeting seventeen or eighteen mem- 

 bers of the club, which was truly a 

 gratification to us. The live interest 

 evidenced by the attendance, by the 

 splendid papers and discussions was 



indeed a revelaticn to one who 

 lives where there is no person with 

 whom to exchange similar ideas. 



Wculd that a Ccoper Club, a Wilson 

 Club cr some other bird club existed 

 in every state in the Union in as 

 flourishing a condition as our Califor- 

 nia friends maintain their splendid or- 

 ganizaticn. 



V\"hile in California we had the plea- 

 sure of meeting A. M. Ingersoll, a well 

 known bird student of San Diego, who 

 with his wife was stopping at one of 

 the leading Lcs Angeles hotels for the 

 winter. Mr. Ingerscll is the second 

 person with whom the editor of this 

 publication ever arranged an exchange 

 cf eggs. That was in the long, long 

 ago. Until this meeting in California, 

 we had never seen Mr. Ingersoll, 

 though had kept up a correspondence 

 acquaintance with him for many years. 

 It is a pleasure now to know that he 

 is not only one of the leading oolo- 

 gists cf the coast, and that he has per- 

 haps the most complete collection of 

 North American eggs existing on the 

 coast, but also that he has by strict 

 attention to business and legitimate 

 means, accumulated a competence. He 

 has now retired to enjoy the fruits 

 of his industry and declining years. 

 No doubt he will spend a large portion 

 of his time in his favorite pursuit, the 

 study of birds. 



