THE OOLOGIST 
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GIST it is beginning to assume the 
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Volume 27. 
With this issue we close Volume 27 
of THE OOLOGIST. For twenty-seven 
years—the span of an ordinary busi- 
ness life, this little journal has cater- 
ed to its special clientage. Beginning 
in a small way as a school boy’s pub- 
lication devoted to “Birds eggs,” it 
has steadily grown until today it is 
the oldest, best, most widely read bird 
journal in America. It has a rank as 
a scientific publication that places it 
in the permanent files of nearly every 
large seat of learning, Museum and 
technical university in the world. It 
stands today without a peer in its 
own particular field; surely a fruitage 
of which those who planted the little 
seed way back in 1884 may well be 
proud, 
