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i'he Hawk eye Ornithologist and Oologist, 



In sending out specimens for naming 

 be generous. Send all that you can 

 spare — and perfect specimens too, as 

 it is impossible to make a positive 

 determination from weathered, worn 

 or broken specimens. Don't ask that 

 the specimens be returned to you, 

 but present them to the institutions 

 or individuals to whom you sent 

 them for naming. Besides the insti- 

 tutions named above there are many 

 of our prominent naturalists who 

 make a specialty of conchology and 

 will name any specimens sent to 

 them for determination. One thing 

 I wish to warn the beginner against 

 is submitting his collections to an 

 amateur and depending on his label- 

 ing. This was one of the "verdant" 

 things of which I was guiltv. 



The beginner in land and fresh- 

 water shells will probably vote such 

 a pursuit as "slow 11 when he first 

 commences. After making a few ex- 

 changes and seeing the diversity of 

 form, color, and sculpturing, he will 

 become interested and begin making 

 comparisons. He is then on the right 

 road to knowlege, and as he adds 

 species after species to his collection 

 from land, river, or lake and sea, the 

 hobby will grow on him and it will 

 not be dropped when entering a bus-' 

 iness life as is the case with postage 

 stamps and eggs, but the collection 

 will be kept up and give many an 

 hour's recreation when worried with 

 the cares of life. 



Another advantage of such a collec- 

 tion is that you don't offend those 

 aesthetic people who are horrified at 

 the idea of collecting birds and eggs 

 andgiveus "fits" for ''murdering" and 

 "robbing" the poor birds. To tell the 

 truth, after years of collecting and 

 becoming "hardened" to it a guilty 

 feeling sometimes comes over me 

 when taking a set of eggs. 



[TO BE CONTINUED.] 



MlX^f^OGrY. 



For The Hawkeye O. and O. 



THE SCIENTIST. 



BY H. F. HEGNER, DECORAH, IOWA. 



But now he stands upon the sandy 

 beach with the breakers in sight, his 

 eyes attracted to the sea weeds and 

 pearly shells at his feet. He is inter- 

 ested, and examines them carefully. 

 Some of the shells he finds inhabited, 

 and, as he is a naturalist, is soon ac- 

 quainted with each specific form, 

 and has a learned name for it. But 

 he also finds a real architect in the 

 delicate tinted coral branches at his 

 feet. Around the head and mouth of 

 this little creature, serving as arms 

 for obtaining food, he finds a num- 

 ber of tentacles. "Nature has given 

 you a goodly work to do, little archi- 

 tect," cries the naturalist, "and these 

 tentacles are well adapted to your 

 animal wants. Polypus is many 

 armed, and henceforth, most scien- 

 tifically, your name shall be polyp!" 



And then' he begins a pleasing 

 study. Zoophytes he finds every- 

 where, spreading their beautiful ar- 

 chitectural works along the conti- 

 nental borders. 



He crosses the stormy Atlantic, 

 weighing the mighty power that 

 drives the storm. On, on through 

 the quiet Indian ocean, the phospho- 

 rescent Indian ocean, naming and 

 collecting myriad living forms, untii 

 he reaches the beautiful Polynesia, 

 where, spread out in the tropical sun 

 are the coral reefs — monuments of 

 submerged islands — with an epitaph 

 to the departed written in living 

 characters around each placid la- 

 goon. 



The scientist, though, can read and 

 understand; it is not beyond his con- 

 ception; and bringing together these 

 epitaphs, he forms a perfect image of 

 those submerged lands. Vegetation 



