200 THE WILSON BULLETIN— December, 1921 



NOTES-HERE AND THERE 



Conducted by the Secretary 

 Dr. T. C. Stephens of Sioux City, spent a goodly part of the 

 summer preparing data and manuscript on the summer birds of 

 the Lalte Ol<:oboji region in Iowa. 



Perhaps the finest ornithoolgical library in the middle went is 

 that of the Crerar Library in Chicago. In a.ddition to the splendid 

 collection of books, here may also be found complete files of most 

 of the bird magazines of consequence which have been published 

 in this and other countries. The Library has recently removed to 

 permanent quarters in the Marshall Field Building on Wabash 

 avenue. 



Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood is now Curator of Zoology at the Field 

 Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Dr. Osgood will take over 

 the ornithoolgical work of the late Dr. Charles B Cory of that 

 institution. 



Prof. Thos. L. Hankinson, one of our former Secretaries, has 

 accepted the chair of Biology at the State Normal School at 

 Ypsllanti, Mich. Professor Hankinson had been with the New 

 York School of Forestry at Syracuse. 



Some years ago, when the present Secretary took up his new 

 duties, friend Bales of Circlevllle, Ohio, wrote him that " the 

 Club has a lot of mighty fine fellows in it." The truth of this 

 remark has become more and more apparent as time goes on 

 and the writer would amplify it only to include the ladies. 



Mr. George M. Sutton of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, 

 is preparing the colored plates for H. H. Bailey's forthcoming 

 book on the birds of Florida. Mr. Sutton's work has attracted 

 well deserved attention and he birds fair to rank high among our 

 bird artists. 



A method of securing copies of pages from rare books, or of 

 illustrations, manuscripts, etc., is afforded by the use of the Pho- 

 tostat, with which most of our larger libraries are now equipped. 

 To ornithologists, engaged in research work or in getting together 

 literature pertaining to any particular area, this photographic 

 process permits securing facsimile copies of the originals und at 

 a smaller cost than for typewritten copies. The New York Public 

 lie Library filled over 5,000 orders during 1920 at a cost of about 

 13 cents per page. The Crerar Library of Chicago and the Chi- 

 cago Public Library are among the western institutions which 

 render Photostatic or similar service. 



Mr. C. J. Pennock of Kennett Square, Pa., with whose Florida 

 writings our readers are quite familiar, is sp'^nding the winter 

 again in southwestern Florida, at Punta Gordo. 



