THE MUSEUM. 



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shades of purple, with occasional 

 crimson and blue. 



We fully expected to see the mam- 

 moth collection of Mr. Pahiier but 

 something arose each time we made 

 an appointment so this enjoyable event 

 had to be postponed until some future 

 date. 



Several hours were pleasantly spent 

 at the Academy of Science Building in 

 Lincoln Park where Prof. Baker and 

 assistant Woodruff have things pretty 

 much their own way. The collections 

 of the Academy are now very large 

 and well worth a visit. The Walton 

 collection of Cypraa is on e.xhibition 

 and the collections of fossils, birds, 

 etc., has been greatly enlarged by re- 

 cent acquisitions. Business engage- 

 ments prevented further visiting. 



March loth we left for a brief trip 

 East to e.xamine some collections of 

 shells and other specimens for sale 

 there. 



First stop was at Worcester where 

 we found the genial taxidermist, C. K. 

 Reed, hustling convex pieces together 

 in a hurry for the Sportsman's Expo- 

 sition. He reports heavy trade in 

 the taxidermic line all winter, but still 

 finds time to constantly get up new 

 things in the line of tools for taxiderm- 

 ists and oologists, all of which we con- 

 sider combine both fine quality and 

 cheapness. 



March I2th we visited Messrs. East- 

 man & Browne at Framingham. Mr. 

 E's. fancy is almost entirely with the 

 birds and his collection shows rare 

 taste in selecting choice specimens. 

 They are beautifully arranged by fam- 

 ilies in draws of proper depth. Mr. 

 B. is a veteran collector in several 

 lines and we only had time to hastily 

 examine the Mollusca. The collection 

 is mostly arranged in draws easily ac- 

 cessable. In fact his various collec- 

 tions fill his library from top to bot- 

 tom and are branching out to all parts 

 of his residence. They show an end- 

 less amount of labor. He has them 

 so fully catalogued any specimen can 

 be instantly found and examined. 



Our old friend Trowbridge we found 

 had gone out into the country after 

 the eggs of Bubo 'nrginianus. In 

 fact we were told that Brother T. has 

 a few pairs of Owls that lay regularly 

 for him each season and refuse to give 

 up their treasures to other "Egg 

 Fiends. " After a brief look at his 

 unique collection of all sizes and 

 shapes of "hen fruit" we zigzaged 

 across country a short distance to the 

 residence and museum of the veteran 

 Bahama collector and naturalist, C. J. 

 Maynard. Here we were royally en- 

 tertained and took no end of pleasure 

 in examining the new species of Ba- 

 hama birds Mr. M. is soon to describe 

 and some live Cootis new to science. 

 Mr. Maynard is located, to our mind, 

 in one of the most beautiful sections in 

 Eastern Massachusetts. He carries 

 on a large trade with schools but his 

 work is chietly known through "Con- 

 tributions to Science, " which appears 

 in numbers as fast as Mr. M. is able 

 to work up the vast quantity of new 

 material he gathers in the Bahamas. 

 \\'e secured some very interesting ma- 

 terial we have not heretofore handled 

 and which will be offered Museum 

 readers later on. 



From here a thirty minutes' ride 

 through an endless chain of beautiful 

 suburban villages brought us to his- 

 toric old Cambridge, the seat of Har- 

 vard University. Several hours were 

 spent in the Agassiz Museum, examin- 

 ing the Invertebrates mainly. The ar- 

 rangement of the entire museum is 

 peculiar. In order, for instance, to 

 examine the Mollusca it is necessary 

 to tramp over the entire Museum out- 

 side of the Mineralogy and Botanical 

 floors. The invertebrate and verte- 

 brate departments are divided into 

 horizons as the South .\merican fauna, 

 Indian Ocean fauna, Australian fauna, 

 etc. The collections as a whole are 

 exceptionally fine. 



P'rom here we went to Lynn and 

 Crescent Beaches on the ocean shore 

 and spent a whole day watching the 

 tide and collecting shrimps, shells. 



