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THE OOLOGIST. 



of the Junior World's Exposition to be 

 held at Dayton, O., in September, a 

 more extended notice of which we give 

 in other columns, writes: 



"I enclose a slip advising you of an 

 exposition to be held in this association 

 Sept. 9th to 21st, inclusive. It is gotten 

 up by boys under my supervision, and 

 is purely educational. It will be very 

 extensive. We have already received 

 exhibits from Russia, Jamaica, France, 

 New Zealand and many states. Nearly 

 every country and state will be repre- 

 sented. We expect 10,000 people in the 

 two weeks. The boys would appreciate 

 an exhibit from you of such things as 

 you would care to send. It should reach 

 us by Aug. 25th, so that we can put it 

 in the catalogue, which will be a souven- 

 ier and 10,000 issued. 



its value in the eyes of a Philadelphia 

 entomologist. The ornithologist or en- 

 tomologist who collects specimens with- 

 out keeping at least locality and date of 

 capture is a back number." 



Mr. Philip Laurent of Philadelphia, 

 to whom we recently sent specimens of 

 the Great Gray and Hawk Owls, which 

 were obtained during the winter of '95- 

 '96, from Red Deer River country, Al- 

 berta, and for which we could furnish 

 no further data, writes amply, timely 

 and tersely as follows: 



'I am sorry that you can't give me a 

 little more data concerning the two 

 Owls. 1 have nothing to complain of as 

 regards the mounting of the two speci- 

 mens, although I think I could have 

 done a little better work with the Great 

 Gray. In my opinion, the man who col- 

 lects a bird skin as rare as the Great 

 Gray Owl or the Hawk Owl, and does 

 not take down full data (sex by dissec- 

 tion, such measurements as can not be 

 well taken from a dry skin; as well as 

 determining the contents of the stom- 

 ach, locality and date of capture) should 

 have at least three months in jail. There 

 are quite a few ornithologists whom it 

 would pay to visit some of the active 

 "held entomologists" of Philadelphia, 

 and see with what care they label their 

 specimens. An insect without exact 

 locality and date of capture loses half 



The booklet sent out by Mr. Silas H. 

 Paine of the Silver Bay Hotel, Silver 

 Bay, N. Y., mentions "three unique at- 

 tractions," which ought to make Silver 

 Bay headquarters for the naturalist and 

 collector when in the Lake George re- 

 gion. 



"The flora of Lake George:— Nature 

 study is becoming very popular. No 

 bettt-r place can be found for it than 

 the shores of Lake George. It is won- 

 derfully rich in wild flowers, ferns and 

 mosses. A lady guest of the Silver Bay 

 Hotel, arriving on the noon boat, found 

 over fifty varieties of wild flowers that 

 afternoon. 



"A large room has been devoted to a 

 collection of 'The flora of Lake George' 

 — not pressed in books in the old-fash- 

 ioned way — but placed in frames, like 

 pictures, along the walls, where they 

 can be easily examined and studied. 



"The fauna of Lake George: — A whole 

 building is devoted to a rare collection 

 of the birds and animals to be found in 

 this region, nearly 300 specimens, each 

 bird with its nest and eggs and young, 

 surrounded by the foliage in which it 

 makes its home, and each animal in the 

 same way — in its natural surroundings. 

 This work has been done by a skillful 

 naturalist and is of g'eat interest, not 

 only to the student, but to all lovers of 

 birds and animals 



"The history of Lake George:— There 

 is no spot of equal length in America 

 that has been so many times fought over 

 as the shores of Lake George. The relics 

 of these old wars — arrowheads, spears, 

 tomahawks, cannon balls, bayonets, 

 muskets and all the paraphernalia of 

 the camp and battlefield— are turned 

 up by the plow, or fished up from the 

 bottom of the lake. Two rooms have 

 been devoted to a collection of these 

 historical relics and the portraits of the 

 French, English, Indian and American 

 soldiers who have fought here. 



With these collections are also gath- 

 ered the books pertaining to them, so 

 that the amateur and the student can 

 find all the helps necessary for their 

 use." 



