60 The Hawkeye 0. and 0. 



I write in this book a discription of its variations from the type 

 specimen. I also have a portefolio whare I keep my pen and 

 colored drawings, carfully drawn engravings, etc. After I have 

 thus used a specimen, I do not care for it any more, but wish to 

 get others instead. It is not much trouble to keep up this system 

 of records, and if carried on for several years their value would 

 indeed be great. I would like to see others adopt it. Being ac- 

 quainted with the type form I can not see what benifit or use a 

 specimen is to a person after he has examined it and made a note 

 of its pecularities or variations, and in the case of animal skins, 

 skeletons, etc., this can quite often be done without the distrac- 

 tion of life; at any rate it would reduce collecting to a proper 

 minum. 



I have noticed lately the tendency among students twords spec- 

 ialism. That is right. The whole field has been examined too 

 thouroughly for the probability of a general student picking up 

 any new facts; but patient and persistant investigation in and es- 

 pecial branch will be shure to bring to light many new facts, 

 some of which may revolutionize the science. 



BY WALTER RAINE. 



To the Editor of the H. O. and O. 



Dear Sir: — Mr. Wmkley has advertisements in March and 

 May issues of the H. O. and O., in which he wishes to purchase 

 natural history specimens from collectors, and I think it my duty 

 to let naturalists know how he has used me, so that they may 

 avoid a wolf in sheep's clothing. Early last November, Winkley 

 ordered birds' eggs at one third his catalogue rates as pre ar- 

 ranged. I filled his order, sending him first-class European and 



