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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher. 



ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and Items of Interest to tne 

 student of Birds, tbelr Nests and Eggs, solicited 

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HE POST 0=-FICE I 



Clyde L. Smith of Oblong, 111., writes 

 that on the 13th of September he col- 

 lected a set of twa eggs of the Mour- 

 ning Dove, incubation advanced about 

 one-third. 



Albert H. Verrill, sou of Prof. Addi- 

 son E. Verrill, curator of the zoological 

 •collection of Yale University, has con- 

 fessed to the theft of articles valued at 

 $10,000 from the Peabody Museum at 

 Yale. The thefts have extended over a 

 period of two years, and the exact 

 amount of the loss will probably never 

 be known, as the young man has for- 

 gotten the number of pieces he has tak- 

 en. Verrill is about 25 years old and a 

 graduate of the class of '93. 



Verrill has been an extensive patron 



of the ad vertisirg columns of both the 

 Oologist and Natukal Science News 

 during the past year and although we 

 knew that he was selling specimens at 

 lidiculously low prices, we considered 

 that he had ample opportunity for ob- 

 taining the same legitimately— owing to 

 his position and more so to the station 

 of his illustrious father. Verrill ob- 

 tained an unsavory reputation as an 

 oologist in '93 and we weie one of the 

 first to detect him in his c-rooked work 

 —later, however, he successfully hood- 

 winked ye editor with a plausible ex- 

 planation in which he, Verrill, posed as 

 the injured party and, although we re- 

 fused him space for some months we 

 finally, under protest and with certain 

 very stringent conditions and stipula- 

 tions, allowed him the use of the same. 

 As yet we have no reason to think oth- 

 erwise than that our readers have been 

 treated fairly by him and received big^ 

 value for the money they saw fit to in- 

 vest, the question now most naturally 

 arises as to what proportion of these 

 goods were filched from the Peabody 

 Museum and what pioportion of the 

 ones that were will ever be returned. 



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