THE MUSEUM. 



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"Are our candidates elected?" 

 "Not with yer assistance anyhow," 

 said Mr. Donahue triumphantly. "I'm 

 sorry to inform ye, fellow-citizens iv 

 th' Raypublic, that th' iliction officials, 

 bein' me, was onable f'r to count y'r 

 votes. Ye, Molly, ar-re undher age, 

 an' Mrs. Donahue, I regret to tell ye 

 that ye marked yer ballot in such a 

 mussy way that I was obliged f'r to 

 throw it out. So I took th' liberty iv 

 abstracthin' both iv thim, th' female 

 vote iv th' precinct bein' too small f'r 

 to carry downtown, an' I presint thim 

 to ye. Perhaps ye can use thim f'r 

 curl papers. Fellow-citizens, ajoo! 

 I'm goin' to bed. an' if a polisman calls 

 f'r ye in th' night f'r vi'latin' th' iliction 

 laws plaze thry not to wake me up." 



Concluding this, the longest speech 

 of his life, Mr. Donahue bowed low 

 and went jauntily to his room. — The 

 author of "Mr. Dooley," in the Feb- 

 ruary Ladies' Home Journal. 



Notes. 



In the death of Dr. Elliott Coues, 

 ornithology loses one of its greatest 

 lights. Copy for a sketch of his life 

 was prepared for our January number, 

 but was inadvertantly left out. Dr. 

 Coues was 58 years old at his death, 

 and for nearly forty years has been an 

 ardent student and writer on the Birds 

 and Mammals of the United States. 

 His work, "Key to North American 

 Birds" has run through several editions 

 and is the standard work of an army 

 of workers. 



No. 1 of Vol. 5 of the Iowa Ornithol- 

 ogist, under the new name of the West- 

 ern Ornithologist, and management of 

 Mr. C. C. Tryon, of Avoca, Iowa, 

 comes to our desk. In the future it 

 will be a bi-monthly, six issues a year, 

 at 50 cents, or 10 cents a number. 

 We have always believed there was a 

 field for a good magazine in the Mis- 

 sissippi valley. Birds are very fond in 

 their migrations of following the lines 

 of great rivers, and collectors in the 



middle west can surely bring to light 

 matter of great interest to the rest of 

 our country. May the good work go 

 on and Mr. Tryon meet with the suc- 

 cess he deserves. The first number 

 contains 30 pages altogether, well il- 

 lustrated and instructive. 



Our esteemed friend, Mr. John W. 

 Daniel, of Lynchburg, Va., and Wash- 

 ington, D. C. , contemplates publish- 

 ing in the very near future a quarterly 

 journal of ornithology. The first num- 

 ber is not out yet, but will probably 

 receive notice in our next Museum. 



Prof. A. C. Webb, of Nashville, 

 Tenn., has sent us a copy of his neat 

 little work, "Some Birds and their 

 Ways." For homes and schools. It 

 is not a treatise on ornithology, but 

 simply a collection of sketches giving 

 a life history and description of some 

 of the common birds of western Ten- 

 nessee and adjoining territory. The 

 descriptions, which are in plain lan- 

 guage and readily understood by any 

 young student, are mainly from the 

 author's observations. It is illustrated 

 by some 30 cuts and contains 130 

 pages. If any of our friends would 

 like a copy, we will send one prepaid 

 for 55 cents. 



We should be pleased if subscribers 

 to the Museum in the prominent pub- 

 lic museums throughout the country 

 would send us notes on the more im- 

 portant work being carried on in the 

 same, and any contemplated expedi- 

 tions or original explorations. One of 

 our correspondents sends a copy of the 

 University News Letter from Ann 

 Arbor, in which we note: 



SKELETONS IN THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 



The specimens in the collection of 

 skeletons in the museum of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan are being mounted and 

 placed on exhibition. Among the skele- 

 tons are those of domestic and wild an- 

 imals, birds and reptiles, including the 

 skeleton of a camel and of a tamarau. 

 The tamarau specimen is probably the 



