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Kntered as second-class matter December 21. 1903, at tlie post office at 

 Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, l879. 



THIS ISSUE 



We give much space in this issue to the late John L. Childs, 

 who is well known to the readers of The Oologist, as one of 

 America's great collecting Oologists. 



We have had the privilege of examining a list of the Childs' 

 collections and truly they are wonderful. It is our understand- 

 ing they are to be dispersed and it is to be hoped that in so 

 doing the high standing for business fairness and integrity 

 and fair dealing which Mr. Childs maintained during his en- 

 tire life, will be adhered to. 



As a lawyer of nearly forty years of active practice, we can 

 truly say that some of the things that have come under our 

 observation, which persons have resorted to get possession of 

 the property of one who has died, were not creditable. We 

 truly hope that no such blotch will be visited upon the name 

 of Mr. Childs, but that all dealing with reference to the dis- 

 position of his specimens will be open and fair and that any 

 one desiring to acquire any of these will be compelled to and 

 will be willing to meet open and fair competition, for we are 

 very sure that such would be Mr. Childs' method were he alive. 



