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and g-et out among- the birds. Mr, Sudworth 

 is a conscientious worker in anything- he 

 undertakes, and has made a success of his 

 botanical work. 



Dr. Morris Gibbs, who has been well known 

 as a writer on many branches of natural his- 

 tory for over twenty years, has observed in 

 many states, north and south. He is as 

 familiar with the snakes, turtles and fish, as 

 he is with the birds and flowers. 



Fitz Henry Chapin and Frank Judson, two 

 old time "hawkers," are last reported from 

 the Klondike region, and Mr. Chapin is so 

 well satisfied with that quarter that he return- 

 ed there a second time. So much for adven- 

 ture. 



K. R. Willhelm, than whom there never 

 was a more intrepid climber, has gone to 

 Southern California, seeking new worlds to 

 conquer. Smooth sycamores, fifteen feet in 

 circumfrence and fifty feet to the first limb 

 are nothing- to him. 



Captain Joseph Westnedg-e was in the Span- 

 ish war, and his brother, Dr. Richard West- 

 nedge, was a surg-eon in the Philippines where 

 he lost his life from fever. Poor Dick was an 

 ornament to his profession, as he was to the 

 ornithologist's brotherhood. 



