THE OOLOGIST. 
VoL. XXVII. No. 1. 
ALBION, N. Y. JANUARY 10, 1910. 
WHOLE No. 270 
Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. 
PERSONAL 
The well known bird student, P. G. 
Howes, of Stamford, Connecticut, is 
now in Hurope, our last communica- 
tion from him being from Paris. He 
expects to remain abroad until some- 
time in April and has promised us a 
number of interesting notes on EHuro- 
pean birds, and particularly of Ameri- 
can birds which have been transplant- 
ed to that territory. We are sure they 
will be appreciated by our readers. 
We have just received a letter from 
our cld friend, S. B. Ladd, now of 
Reading, Pennsylvania. In years past 
Mr. Ladd was well known as a leading 
Oolegist and an active collector, and 
exchanged much with collectors 
throughout the country. Of late Mr. 
Ladd has done little in oology and our 
letter was the first communication we 
have had from him for more than fif- 
teen years. As usual with the older 
boys, he accompanies the letter with 
a request for a Sample copy ef THE 
OOLOGIST. 
We attended a meeting of the South- 
ern Division of this flourishing 
California Bird organization at 
Los Angeles, December 30th 1909, 
and there had the the pleasure of 
meeting seventeen or eighteen mem- 
bers of the club, which was truly a 
gratification to us. The live interest 
evidenced by the attendance, by the 
splendid papers and discussions was 
indeed a_ revelaticn to one who 
lives where there is no person with 
whom to exchange similar ideas. 
Weuld that a Cooper Club, a Wilson 
Club cr some other bird club existed 
in every state in the Union in as 
flourishing a condition as our Califor- 
nia friends maintain their splendid or- 
ganizaticn. 
While in California we had the plea- 
sure of meeting A. M. Ingersoll, a well 
known bird student of San Diego, who 
with his wife was stopping at one of 
the leading Los Angeles hotels for the 
winter, Mr. Ingersoll is the second 
person with whom the editor of this 
publication ever arranged an exchange 
cl eggs. That was in the long, long 
age. Until this meeting in California, 
we had never seen Mr. Ingersoll, 
though had kept up a correspondence 
acquaintance with him for many years. 
It is a pleasure now to know that he 
is not only one of the leading oolo- 
gists cf the coast, and that he has per- 
haps the most complete collection of 
North American eggs existing on the 
coast, but also that he has by strict 
attention to business and legitimate 
means, accumulated a competence. He 
has now retired to enjoy the fruits 
of his industry and declining years. 
No doubt he will spend a large portion 
of his time in his favorite pursuit, the 
study of birds. 
