THE JOURNAL 



of the Museum of Comparative Oology 



Copyright, 1922, by William Leon Dawson 

 Intended eventually to be issued as a Quarterly, but now put out as an ANNUAL 



VOL. II 



DOUBLE NUMBER 



NOS. 3 and 4 



[Issued October 26, 1922] 



DEDICATION OF THE HAZARD MEMORIAL 



The New Home of the Museum of Comparative Oology 

 April 17, 1922. 



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REAMS do come true. Sub- 

 stantial proof 

 house" and as 

 the rocks, now 

 beautiful park which lies at the 

 foot of "Mission Hill," the 

 site of the historic Mission 

 Santa Barbara. Rowland Gib- 

 son Hazard had dreamed of 

 such a place; but God took 

 the dreamer while he spared 

 the dream. A devoted widow, 

 Mary P. Bushnell Hazard, 

 and a sister, Caroline Hazard, 

 to whom the stricken head 

 of the house was exceedingly 

 dear, conspired together to 

 immortalize an interest which, 

 although subsidiary, was far 

 from casual in the life of 

 their loved one, and to en- 

 shrine a name already endeared 

 to the recollection of the oolog- 

 ical fraternity. The result is 

 an ample and favorably situ- 

 ated building site of nearly 

 two acres, the "Hazard Bird 

 Refuge," and a commodious 

 building, The Hazard Mem- 

 orial, which now houses the 

 collections of the Museum of Comparative Oology. 



The Hazard Memorial is a concrete structure some seventy-live leet 

 square, with enclosed patio and attendant corridors. The architecture, Spanish 

 Colonial, is not only in keeping with the best traditions of Santa Barbara's past, 

 but is a part of a wide-spread and thorough-going local movement to restore and 

 perpetuate that past. A few local builders are actually experimenting with the 

 hand-made 'dobe bricks of a hundred years ago; but the modern equivalent of 

 adobe is concrete covered with plaster, and this equivalent has here been fash- 

 ioned into a museum building, at once quaint and serviceable, durable, and 



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