42 Tl,.e Hawkeye 0. and 0. 



drawers below. He also has a case of ten drawers each twenty 

 inches square, with plate glass fronts, which contains his land 

 shells, and is partitioned off to contain five hundred species. 



Mr. Ford has male several quite lucky finds. In May, 1885, 

 while proving up a claim in Kiowa County, he came across a 

 bed of fossil oyster shells {Gryphoea pltchen, Morton) in the bed 

 of a small stream known as Soldier creek. From this bed he ob- 

 tained several hundred fine specimens of this fossil which have 

 been of great value in exchanging. He also at one time found 

 fifty good specimens of the rare Unio abiati (Conrad) on the 

 Fall river, near Neodesha, Kansas. He lately discovered an old 

 Indian camp ground near the month of Chisholm creek, in 

 Sedgevvick County, where he found over one hundred stone rel- 

 ics consisting of arrow heads, scrapers, mauls, rubbing stones and 

 flint hatchets. Last year Mr. Ford made a trip through Colora- 

 do, New Mexic i, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, and many tine 

 specimens were added to his collection. 



Mr. Ford desires, through the H. 0. and O. to thank his 

 friend and relative, Mr. John Ford of Philadelphia, Mr. J. R. 

 Mead of Wichita, his father, E. P. Ford, and his brother, Fred 

 L. Ford of Los Angeles, Cal., for their generous assistance, and 

 for the many rare and valuable additions they have made to his 

 collection. 5 



A PLEA FOli PROTECTION. 



BY J. I). FORD. 



I have noticed that in some oological papers a great many of 

 the young collectors boast of the number of eggs of each species 

 they can collect ih a day: For instance, one collector obtained 

 nine sets of the Green Heron; eleven sets ■ of the Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren and a great many sots of Am. Robin and lied-and- 

 buff shouldered Blackbird besides. Now this is only one in- 

 stance, and a great many more such appear almost every month. 



