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live, though all recognize him as the dean of the Smithsonian, and he is generaHy so 

 regarded. Indeed, the fact is historical that his connection with this institution date,s 

 as far back as the fall of 1860, at which time Prof. Spencer F. Baird, who was- then 

 chief fish commissioner of the United States, did him the honor to look him up at 

 his residence in Brooklyn upon his return from his collection trip in Labrador in 

 company with Prof. Elliott Coues, who at that time had just made his maiden trip 

 in the interest of ornithology. 



"Ever since that time Mr. Hallock has been doing gratuitous service for such 

 departments as his wide field experience would enable him to aid, more especially 

 in zoology, geology, geography, ichthyology, entomology, biology, enthropology, 

 forestry and agriculture, and also in the Indian office and weather bureau. At one 

 time, when Professors Harkness and Eastman were in charge of the naval observa- 

 tory, he was a frequent visitor there. 



"The other day, by request of Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smithsonian, he 

 opened out correspondence with Professors Henry and Baird, dating to 1807, and 

 embodying transactions which will find permanent place in the comprehensive biog- 

 raphies of those distinguished functionaries which are now being prepared under 

 the personal direction of their daughters, Miss Lucy Baird and Miss Mary Henry. 

 The chief of these papers related to the establishment of the Central Park Zoo in 

 New York, and the installation of its first superintendent under the supervision of 

 Andrew V. Green and Salem H. Wales, Mr. Hallock selecting the party. There 

 was also a letter written by Marshall McDonald to Mr. Hallock in 1878, requesting 

 his influence in establishing his fishway, which he had just perfected. This gentle- 

 man afterward succeeded Professor Bird as fish commissioner.- Mr. Hallock had 

 that year started his popular weekly journal, which was at once employed as a 

 medium of scientific communication by Dr. Theo. Gill, Elliott Coues, H. V. Hayden 

 and other notables working under the auspices of the Smithsonian, many of whom, 

 like General Brisbane, the two Scho/fields, Captain Bendire, Colonel Albert Mallory, 

 and others, held high official rank in the army. 



"Mr. Hallock had many distinguished correspondents in Canada, such as Dr. 

 Robert Bell, H. G. Vennor, William H. Yenning, Moses Perley and other scientists. 

 He had the unlimited confidence of them all, and this acquaintance throughout the 

 continent nearly all of which had been traversed by Mr. Hallock himself during 

 the twenty-five years previous to 1873 gave him a wide and powerful influence. 



"And this is the reason why this gentleman is honored in his declining years as 

 he rambles through the grounds of the Smithsonian, which he has been so long 

 familiar with. We is well preserved physically, has never had serious illness, and 

 is likely to line up with his ancestors, who have been proverbially long lived. Mr. 

 Hallock is a winter resident of Washington, but he passes his summers in North- 

 western Massachusetts, near a little village named Plainfield, in the Hampshire Hills, 

 where repose the relics of five generations, and where the brook trout bite freely 

 in the spring. He is there at the present time." SPORTSMEN'S REVIEW. 



