16 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 
City; H. W. Flint, New Haven, Conn.; Flood Brothers, 
Hudson, Mass.; Thomas H. Jackson, West Chester, Pa.; 
Thomas MclIlwraith, Hamilton, Ontario; Dr. C. Hart Mer- 
riam, Washington, D. C.; J. T. Park, Warner, Tenn.; 
Harry G. Parker, Chester, Pa.; Charles J. Pennock, Ken- 
nett Square, Pa.; G. H. Ragsdale, Gainesville, Tex.; W. 
G. Smith, Colorado; G. E. Stilwell, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Frank B. Webster, Boston, Mass. There are specimens 
in the collection taken by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, W. E. D. 
‘Scott, L. M. Loomis, and John Rowley, but the writer 
was unable to ascertain whether Dr. Avery corresponded 
directly with these gentlemen or received the specimens 
in exchange through some of his museum correspondents. 
Many of the letters from his correspondents fortunately 
are preserved in the files of the State Department of 
Archives and History, at Montgomery, and these are very 
interesting. For instance there is one from Robert Ridg- 
way thanking Dr. Avery for correcting the diagnosis of 
Dendroica vigorsi as published in the former’s ‘Manual 
of North American Birds,” 1887, and Dr. J. A. Allen tells 
how to make a fat scraper and gives a few hints on pois- 
oning the tails of mammal skins. 
That Dr. Avery’s interest in Zoology was not confined 
to birds is evidenced by a catalogue of fifty-three mam- 
mals taken Dee. 16, 1890, to Feb. 2, 1894. The collec- 
tion included mice, rats, moles, skunks, chipmunks, musk 
rats, minks, flying squirrels, and others, the most of the 
specimens were little spotted skunks. Apparently few of 
his specimens were retained for his own collection, the 
majority being sent to Dr. A. K. Fisher, Dr. C. Hart Mer- 
riam, and the Smithsonian Institution. Snakes also were’ 
collected and sent to Dr. Leonhard Stejneger of the U. 
S. National Museum, and there was some correspondence 
with Drs. L. O. Howard and C. L. Marlatt, of the U. S. 
Bureau of Entomology, relating to insect specimens sent 
to them by Dr. Avery for identification. Dr. Avery was 
also something of an amateur botanist. 
Doctor Avery was ever the sportsman. Besides being 
an enthusiastic gunner he was a lover of dogs and was. 
widely known as an excellent trainer of these animals. 
