Those who wonder that we did not launch this scientific enterprise in New York 

 or Washington seem to be not sufficiently aware that New York and Boston and Phila- 

 delphia and Baltimore and Washington and Chicago and Denver and Seattle and San 

 Francisco and Montreal have appointed this place as their official rendezvous, the place 

 where they will spend their leisure time, their play-time, their time for communion 

 with nature. It is true, we have forsaken the beaten path of museum enterprise, but we 

 have done so only that we may keep pace with the trend of affairs, and that we may 

 qualify for a large service. 



Santa Barbara is not America alone; it is England and France and Italy. It is 

 Spain and Mexico and Australia, with a touch of Siam. It is not, therefore, the 

 casual meeting place of tourists, whether potentates, or ex-potentates, or school-ma'ams 

 on vacation. It is the home of leisure and culture and conspicuous service. Its cos- 

 mopolitan population includes les arrivees. We submit that Santa Barbara will afford 

 an ideal home for an institution which aspires to occupy fully a little niche in the 

 world-wide scheme of things. 



OUR PRESENT EQUIPMENT. 



The Museum of Comparative Oology occupies as temporary quarters two build- 

 ings on grounds belonging to the Director, viz., "Los Colibris", in Mission Canyon. 

 The main building is a hollow-tile and concrete structure, 20x46 in dimensions, with 

 Mission tile roof and red cement floor. It is, roughly speaking, a Spanish dobe in 



East Wall, Main Building, Showing 3-Unit Cases, Nos. IX and X. 



style, and is practically fire-proof. Besides a main reception room, 20x30, this building 

 contains a work-room, a dark-room, storage closets, etc. The "Annex", 20x30, painted 

 to resemble its more permanent prototype, is of sheet iron, and contains, beside an 

 exhibition room, another work-room and a partitioned space for nest storage. 



Redwood cases to the number of twenty-four now completely occupy the wall 

 space of the two main rooms. These represent a bulk of 1775 cubic feet, or 2020 

 drawer feet; for their allotment of space is divided into 473 drawers, all covered, 



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