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A wary old beaver, with three legs, escaped from the Zoological 
hi y up the Br I 
took one specially eon and placed, to catch him! His life 
was worth too much to kill h 
n occasional red-deer visits ie garden. Three or four times 
in our history, this has happened; the last one came in the spring 
and summer of 1915 and was reported by several people to have 
id around the lily-po The 
Zoological Park disclaimed all ownership, so it must h e 
Wr isit and to see how its civilized relatives live, and 
finding itself excluded from polite society taken to t oods 
again a pearet The st f December 13, 1915, blew 
own so many trees, along the river and in the hemlock grove, 
these storms n of d put the railroad out of commission 
I often think of our birds and beasts during the night, when 
“Ri i is the Ramp: and er if th re 
tucked away safe and warm somewhere in the Garden 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR FEBRUARY 
s conference Dr. F. W. Pennell, under ue title ‘Some 
thi 
Taxonomic Problems of Intra-specific Variation,” discussed the 
types of variability in certain species. ia species are doubt- 
