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THE KENT ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
On Dec. 12th 1894, a club of the above 
‘name was organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
with a membership of twenty-three members. 
The object of the society is, ‘*The promotion of 
the scientific study of Ornithology and Oology.”’ 
The society desires correspondence with in- 
dividuals and similar bodies for the purpose of 
exchangiug notes of interest, Address, 
The Kent Ornithological Club, 
55 N. Union St. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
A FEW HINTS TO;EOLLECTORS: 
There are a good many collectors who do 
not seem to care just what kind of instrument 
they use for measuring specimens, and as a 
rule, employ some kind of a cride method, 
such as using two pins in a piece of suft wood, 
and then go to work and push them together 
until they just touch the specimen. Then 
they measure how far these pims are apart. 
The results they get are easy to be imagined. 
Then another class invest their money in a 
cheap caliper-square, such as are for sale for 
75cts. and $1.00. 
thing about measuring instruments will: tell 
Now anyone knowing any- 
them that it is impossible to get up an accu- 
rate tool, for such money. Collectors ought to 
remember that a thing worth doing, is worth 
doing right, and any data with out the required 
accuracy is of very little use. 
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The above illustrations represent a line of 
calipers which are now in use by some of our 
most noted collectors. The plain cut repre- 
sents a caliper which is graduated on one side 
into rooths, of an inch the other into milli- 
metres. 
The next cut represents the caliper, with 
clamp screw adjustment, used for very fine 
reading down to roooths, of an inch. The 
next cut with the pointing projections on the 
other end of the sliding jaws is quite a handy 
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