326 Notes and Neivs. \^^^ 



Ornithologische Monatsschrift, XXVIII, Nos. 1-5, Jan.-May, 1903. 



Ornitholisches Jahrbuch, XIV, Heft 3-4, June, 1903. 



Ottawa Naturalist, XVII, Nos. 1-3, April-June, 1903. 



Our Animal Friends, XXX, Nos. 8-10, April-June, 1903. 



Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Part 3, 1902 (1903). 



Proceedings of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Third Ann. Meet- 

 ing, 1902. 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia Inst, of Science X, 

 Part 4, March, 1903. 



Revista do Museu Paulista, V, 1902. 



Wilson Bulletin, The, X, Nos. i and 2, March and June, 1903. 



Science, N. S., XVII, Nos. 429-4^3, 1903. 



Wombat, The, V, No. 4, Dec. 1902. 



Zoological Qiiarterly, I, No. i. May 15, 1903 (Pennsylvania Depart, of 

 Agriculture). 



Zoologist, The, (4) VII, Nos. 76-7S, April-June, 1903. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Thomas Edwards Slevin, an Associate of the American Ornitholo- 

 gist's Union, died at his home in San Francisco on December 23, 1902, in 

 his 32nd year. He was born in New York City on January 20, 1871. A 

 year of his early childhood was spent in France. In 1S78 he removed 

 with his parents to San Francisco. He came of a race of students, both 

 on his mother's side, Bruguiere, and on his father's side. His father, 

 Thomas Edwards Slevin, LL. D., was vice-president of the Geographi- 

 cal Society of the Pacific. 



The genius to make collections was strongly developed in the Slevin 

 family. Mr. Slevin's grandfather gathered a large library, and his father 

 <:ollected the Slevin Library of works relating chiefly to the Pacific coast 

 — now a part of the public library of San Francisco. 



Mr. Slevin's interest in birds dated from his thirteenth year, when he 

 made his first attempt at forming a collection. In later jears, he attained 

 a very high degree of skill in the preparation of specimens; in the smaller 

 birds, his specimens, for durability and beauty of finish, are not excelled 

 by the work of the leading preparators in this country. To the very last 

 he was eager to improve in his methods. His collection of birds numbered 

 about three thousand specimens, and was built up in leisure moments 

 after office hoin-s, on holidays, and during vacations. It is now incorpo- 

 rated with the study series of the California Academy of Sciences and is 

 a monument to his earnest effort. 



