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and we shall look forward to it with 

 interest. 



At Jacksonville, we were permitted 

 to examine the collection of the late 

 Dr. King, an old resident of that city 

 who died some years ago. This is one 

 of the most remarkable assemblages 

 of natural history objects gathered to- 

 gether by a private collector that we 

 have ever seen. It includes substan- 

 tially everything under the sun of a 

 natural history character, including 

 mounted specimens of birds and mam- 

 mals from all parts of the world, a 

 beautiful collection of heads and ant- 

 lers, and an extremely large collec- 

 tion of ethnological specimens. It is 

 housed in a .substantially built room, 

 beautifully cased and certainly is a 

 credit to the industry and persever- 

 ance of the one who gathered it. — Edi- 

 tor. 



Oscar E. Baynard, — everybody that 

 knows Baynard loves him— was struck 

 by one of Florida's famous Diamond 

 Rattlers last sea.son, and is not yet ful- 

 ly recovered. He has recently been 

 appointed Curator of the Museum of 

 the Florida State University, and a 

 better selection could not be made. He 

 has already secured the widly known 

 R. D. Hoyt collection of eggs, skins 

 and mounted birds for the museum. 

 We predict that it will eventually be- 

 come, under his administration, one of 

 the best known accumulations of Flor- 

 ida natural history specimens in exist- 

 ance. We are glad to note that he re- 

 ports some Thirteen Thousand nests 

 of birds on the Orange Lake reserve 

 controlled by the Audubon Society, in- 

 cluding 405 pairs of Egrets, where 

 there were only Four Pairs, two years 

 ago. This shows what protection that 

 really protects will do. 



E. A. Mclllienny, who for many 

 years was one of the most active of 

 American Oologists and who has grad- 



uated into the millionaire class of 

 property holders, has recently purchas- 

 ased 74,000 acres of swamp land on the 

 Louisiana gulf coast and donated the 

 same to the state of Louisiana as a 

 bird reserve, upon which all shooting 

 of every kind will be prohibited. This 

 tract adjoins another very large tract 

 containing 13,000 acres, already the 

 property of the State, and used for 

 the same purpose. 



This is a practical, sensible bird 

 protection. All that will be needed 

 now is to see to it that the laws pro- 

 hibiting shooting on these grounds are 

 strictly and impartially enforced. 

 Would that there were more of his 

 kind. 



Mr. Stanley G. Jewett, one of Ore- 

 gon's leading ornithologists writes, "1 

 am home again after a glorious four 

 months' afield, mostly a desert I 

 should say, as Wyoming is pretty dry 

 in spots. Then I had a nice trip iiit") 

 the lake region of eastern Creg.n 

 where I visited the Egret colony ani 

 .saw ducks, grebes and i)elicans, not 

 by the thousands, but by the acre." 



We should be glad if he wculd fu- 

 nish The Oologist readers with some 

 notes on his trip. 



L. Brooks, one of the older Oologists 

 of the old Bay States, writes, "After 

 having recovered a long broken health 

 I should like again to become a sub- 

 scriber of The Oologist. We are pleas- 

 ed to have him with as again, and con- 

 gratulate him on his recovery. No 

 one who has good health realizes what 

 a fearful calamity its loss it. An un- 

 usual set of Nine eggs of the Great 

 Crested Flycatcher," taken twenty- 

 five years ago" is reported by W. H. 

 Lebelsperger of Fleetwood, Pa. Also 

 a set of Three of the Mourning Dove, 

 taken in 1888. 



