THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOCY AND OOLOCY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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How I Obtained an Oriole's Nest. 



About May 27th, I chanced to find an 

 Oriole's nest in an oak tree some thirty 

 •feet from the ground. Oriole's eggs 

 being somewhat scarce in this county I 

 thought of all possible means by which 

 the nest might be obtained, 



Finally I thought of a plan that was 

 worked successfully with a Humming- 

 bird's nest. 



Taking a pole that would just sup- 

 port the nest by resting it on the 

 ground, I drove two nails in the end 

 for the twigs to rest in which held the 

 nest. 



Then planting it firmly on the ground, 

 making sure the limb was supported by 

 the end of the pole, I took a 22-cal. rifle 

 and shot the limb off just above the 

 place resting on the pole, and by some 



means the limb fastened itself around 

 the pole and came sliding down. I 

 caught it when it was "catchable," and 

 on inspection I found it to contain three 

 finely marked fresh eggs, not one of 

 which had been broken. 



The nest was sensibly built contain- 

 ing chicken feathers with the sharp 

 ends stuck through to the out side, mak- 

 ing a safe resting place for the Oriole's 

 Jr. 



Geo. Mims, 

 Edgefield, S. C. 



Shall We Have a General Association of 

 Scientists ? 



Organization is thea'ule to-day among 

 all vocations but that of the scientist. 



To-day there is not a single general 

 association of scientists, founded upon 

 sufficiently liberal principals to enable 

 it to do effective work, for, jour profes- 

 sion as an entity. 



We are scattered abroad far and wide 

 throughout the land, and have no facili- 

 ties for becoming acquainted and can- 

 not resist the attacks of our common 

 enemies, who are thoroughly organized. 

 Have scientists enemies? Certainly 

 they have. Take the scientific profes- 

 sion as an entity, and you cannot find a 

 profession accomplishing more for the 

 general good of humanity, or one upon 

 which mankind in general, are more de- 

 pendent. And yet everywhere we meet 

 only blind bigotry and intolerance, a 

 relic of the barbarous age of the past, 

 when the scientist was considered a ma- 

 gician in league with devils, hence to be 

 persecuted, tortured and put to death. 

 To-day scientists are considered van- 

 dals, cranks, fools, fanatics, etc., butts 

 of ridicule for the ignorarnous. 



And this same spirit of intolerance 

 and persecution has pervaded all our 

 legislative halls, and left its imprint on 

 all our statute books. 



In Michigan this is especially the case. 

 No scientist working in any department 



