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York City. I suppose that there is no doubt as to its being the most 
popular bird magazine of to-day. It is illustrated with many 
photographs and with one colored bird plate per number. Louis 
Agassiz Fuertes as bird artist has done more to make birds live on 
canvass than any other painter of birds since the time of Audubon 
and the Audubon society has long had the efforts of this man en- 
listed in their cause. Save for the articles contributed by the editor, 
Dr. Frank Chapman, there is little in the magazine which is really 
literary. An occasional poem may make such a claim, but the 
magazine does not often make use of poetry. A review of the 
contents of the March-April number, 1920, which included pages 
77-138 in the volume of which it was a part, 1s as follows: 
Membership list. 
Editorial Part. 
School Department. ‘‘ Records of bird work in schools.’’ 
Book News and Reviews. 
The Season (Bird reports of the privious month). 
Notes from Field and Study. (More General Observations) 
Articles—Among which was,‘‘ Bird Watcher in France.” 
One colored plate; 18 photographs; 6 black and white drawings or charts. 
The contribution from France was especially interesting to me as it 
is an illustration of how the naturalist is trying to bring his material 
up to date so that it shall not fail in interesting the public. 
‘The Condor,” a ‘‘Magazine of Western Ornithology,’’ was 
first published in 1899, in Hollywood, California. It isa bi-monthly, 
and is published by the ‘‘ Cooper Ornithological Club of California. 
It is only another of those magazines which is of interest to the 
ornitholigist, but which has no claim to literature, nor indeed to the 
general naturalistic tendency of the times. Here then, our record 
of bird magazines pauses, a botanic contribution is introduced, 
then the interest swings back to general nature study, in 1905. 
In 1897, ‘““The Plant World,” a monthly journal of popular 
botany was first published in Washington D.C. Since 1902 this has 
been the official organ of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of 
America. We should hardly need mention the publication here 
save as it records the primitive efforts of botany to gain popular 
recognition, just as ornithology had some years before. Of nine 
publications which were launched from 1875 to 1901, seven are 
preeminently ornithological magazines. ‘wo are strictly botanical. 
This then is the first of these, and it was quite alone in its fields 
until 1901 when the American Botanist was issued in New York. 
