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about him. When still quite young he became acquainted with David 

 Dickenson, of Chatham, New Jersey, and from him learned the art of 

 taxidermy. He then went to Florida on a collecting trip and spent several 

 weeks camping with his father on the St. Johns River, the Oklawaha, and 

 Silver Springs. He continued to visit the State every winter thereafter 

 until 1881, when he moved to Clearwater and bought the place at Seven 

 Oaks where he lived the rest of his life. 



He improved every opportunity to collect natural history material and 

 amassed a considerable collection of mounted birds, birds' skins, and birds' 

 eggs, which is now in the Florida State Museum at Gainesville. He was a 

 skilled taxidermist and his services were always in demand for such work. 

 He mounted a large number of birds for Mr. John Lewis Childs, of Floral 

 Park, New York, most of which are now in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Museum. 



Unfortunately, Mr. Hoyt found little time or inclination to publish the 

 results of his observations. Following is a list of the only papers by him 

 known to the writer: 



1905. Nesting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Florida (Campephilus 

 principalis). The Warbler (2nd Series), I, No. 2, pp. 52-55, 1 plate. 

 Nesting of Ward's Heron (Ardea herodias wardi). Ibid., I, No. 4, 

 pp. 114-115. 



1906. Nesting of the Roseate Spoonbill in Florida. Ibid., II, No. 3, 

 pp. 58-59. 



1918. The American Robin in its northern migration, Feb. 15, 1915, in 

 Pinellas County, Fla. The Oologist, XXXV, pp. 6, 9; 2 plates. 

 Mr. Hoyt is survived by his widow, two sons, and two daughters. 



A. H. H. 



The Museum of the California Academy of Sciences has recently 

 acquired by gift the entire ornithological and oological collection of Messrs. 

 Joseph and John W. Mailliard, prominent business men of San Francisco, 

 and Fellow and Member respectively of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



The collection contains close to 25,000 specimens, and is primarily a 

 research collection. Of bird skins there are more than 11,000 specimens 

 representing 777 species; of nests and eggs there are upwards of 13,000 

 specimens representing more than 600 species. 



The Mailliard brothers have been interested in birds from their boyhood 

 days, and these collections are the result of more than forty years of careful, 

 painstaking field work. There are perhaps few, if any, collections that 

 have been made with greater care or in which a greater percentage of the 

 specimens have real scientific value. In the ornithological collection are 

 some of the first reliable records of several species of California birds, 

 as well as the only specimens of other species from localities where they 

 are now unknown. There are also many albino specimens of unusual 

 interest, and several remarkable hybrids. Of certain forms the series are 



