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ous benefactor by flocking in great numbers to the place, and showing 
friendliness and tameness.’’ Miss Ferry was born in Norwalk, September 
17, 1849.— J. H.S. 
Mrs. JANE Louisa Hine, an Associate of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union, died in Sedan, Indiana, February 11, 1916, in her eighty-fifth year. 
She was the daughter of Lonson Brooks, and was born in Erie County, 
Ohio, April 2, 1831. After attending public schools in her native county 
she finished her education at Oberlin College. Early in life she became 
interested in birds and continued to study them as long as she lived. She 
wrote much on birds for ‘The Farmer’s Guide,’ Huntington, Ind., and 
many of her notes are published in Butler’s ‘The Birds of Indiana.’ Her 
‘Observations on the Ruby-throated Hummingbird’ is printed in ‘The 
Auk’ (1894, pp. 253-254).— J. H. S. 
Owt1ne to ill health, Mr. H. W. Henshaw has resigned his position as 
Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, 
dating from December 1. Mr. Henshaw has been connected with the 
Department of Agriculture since 1905, serving as Assistant Chief of the 
Bureau until 1910, thence on as Chief. During this period the Survey 
has grown rapidly. In order that the Bureau may continue to have the 
benefit of Mr. Henshaw’s knowledge and experience he will retain official 
connection with it as consulting biologist. 
Mr. E. W. Nelson, who has been on the scientific staff of the Bureau 
since 1890 and Assistant Chief since 1914, has been appointed to succeed 
Mr. Henshaw as Chief of the Bureau. 
Dr. Grorce W. Frexp, formerly State Fish and Game Commissioner of 
Massachusetts is now a member of the Biological Survey Staff, in charge 
of Federal bird and mammal reservations. 
Auice Hatt WALTER in the September-October issue of ‘ Bird-Lore’ 
discusses a matter of vital importance in the advancement of popular 
ornithology. 
“From time to time,” she writes, “and from more than a single source, 
there has come the criticism that bird-study is in danger of being over- 
popularized. This criticism does not imply that bird-study should be 
limited either in its scope or to students of mature years and serious purpose. 
It does imply that there are persons who care to study birds only in a 
superficial way, that there are others who present lectures of a merely 
popular and too frequently similar type, and that the somewhat confused 
methods of bird- and nature-study at present in use sometimes miss the 
point by reason of uninspired application and lack of personal initiative.” 
Ornithology is fortunate in being, for some reason or other, better adapted 
to popular study than any other science, and for that very reason the great- 
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