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THE OOLOGIST 



his accumulation of eggs and skins. 

 We were sorry to learn that he is 

 about disposing of all of this material 

 and going out of ornithology entirely. 

 We endeavored to dissuade him from 

 so doing. 



At Hollywood we met J. Eugene 

 Law, one of the two business manag- 

 ers of the Cooper Club, and an orni- 

 thologist and oologist of many years' 

 experience. He is now president of 

 the First National Bank there, recent- 

 ly married and is building a new home 

 in which he is making extensive pre- 

 parations for the installation of his 

 large collection. 



At Los Angeles we came in contact 

 with W. Lee Chambers; a more whole- 

 souled, open-hearted fellow we never 

 met, and are glad that he has been 

 our friend for a number of years. 

 Chambers has entire charge of the 

 bicycle department of the largest 

 sporting goods house on the coast — 

 W. H. Hogee Company. 



We also met here, O. W. Howard 

 of Howard & Smith, one of the largest 

 of the landscape gardening nursery 

 firms in the West. Few oologists stand 

 higher than Howard. He took us in 

 his machine and showed us one place 

 that he was just finishing up where 

 the contract for landscape decorations 

 exceeded $37,000. Of late years Mr. 

 Howard has done little in oology but 

 tells us that the bug is again work- 

 ing and he will soon be active. 



Stopping one day at Fallsbrook 

 while motoring through to San Diego, 

 we ran into Frank Day, in charge of 

 the garage at that place. It did not 

 take us long to discover that he is an 

 old oologist, having done much col- 

 lecting in that country, and much ex- 

 changing throughout the country dur- 

 ing the '90's, though now entirely out 

 of the game. It was a pleasure to 

 talk over old times with him. 

 As Escondido we sure ran into the 



right kind. First, J. B. Dixon and his 

 brother C. H. Dixon. "Jo" is superin- 

 tendent of the local water company, 

 and a water company in California is 

 the whole thing. He is too well known 

 to our readers to need any introduc- 

 tion. He and his brother C. H., who 

 spent several seasons in Alaska in or- 

 nithological study are engaged in 

 building up a local collection of the 

 eggs of the raptores, and they certain- 

 ly have a fine display. With him we 

 visited the home of C. S. Sharp, who 

 has one of the neatest looking citrus 

 fruit propositions in that part of the 

 country. Sharp is an old timer. He 

 began studying ornithology with T. 

 M. Brewer and has kept it up ever 

 since. He has a beautiful and exten- 

 sive collection of eggs, and it is a 

 pleasure to meet such as he. 



Here likewise we saw H. J. Carpen- 

 ter, who, with his brother, was for- 

 merly well known through the United 

 States as leading collectors in that 

 vicinity. We had the pleasure of ex- 

 amining this collection, which was by 

 all odds the largest that we saw in 

 Escondido. "Hy" is now too busily 

 engaged in building a nest on top of 

 one of the hills at the edge of Escon- 

 dido for himself and one of the young 

 ladies of the town, to give much atten- 

 tion to ornithology this season. 



At San Diego the first oologist we 

 ran into was A. M. Ingersoll, than 

 whom no man in North America 

 stands higher as an oologist. Inger- 

 soll is one of those fellows who has 

 gotten rich in spite of himself; the 

 boom in San Diego property having 

 placed him permanently on the shady 

 side of Easy Street. He does nothing 

 now but collect rents, cut coupons and 

 hunt birds. His collection is without 

 doubt the best individual collection in 

 that part of, if not in the whole state 

 of California, and many pleasant 

 hours were spent examining this, the 



