PUBLISHER'S 
August 20th. He was 94 years old and his 
death was due to general exhaustion. He 
had been seriously ill for only a few days. 
It had been his hope to live to complete 
his one hundredth year, but in the last in- 
terval of consciousness, a few hours be- 
fore he died, he told his friends that his 
end was near. 
Isaac McLellan had numbered among 
his intimate friends Henry W. Longfellow, 
N. P. Willis, Nathaniel Hawthorne and 
S. S. Prentiss, and was on friendly terms 
with Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, William Cullen Bryant and other 
great men. 
Among his published works were 
“Poems of Rod and Gun,’ “The. Fall of 
the Indian,” ‘““Notes of the Birds,” “The 
Trout Brook,”’ etc. 
Mr. McLellan was extremely fond of 
the forest and of country life. His de- 
sire for the country led him to select 
Greenport, Long Island, as the place in 
which to spend his declining years. 
Up to a year ago he was a frequent 
contributor to RECREATION and _ other 
periodicals, his poems always dealing with 
Nature and her works. i 
He will be sorely missed by thousands 
of people. 

ZOO SPECIMENS ARE COMING IN. 
My appeal to the readérs of RECREA- 
TION for birds and mammals for the New 
York Zoological Park is meeting with 
liberal responses. Here is a list of speci- 
mens already received: 
July 11 Sciuropterus volucella—Flying squirrel. One 
specimen, presented by J. E. Bosworth, Gouverneur, 
Y 
May 27 Bubo virginianus—Great Horned Owl. One 
specimen, presented by V. I. Cook, Belfast, N. Y. 
July 13 Buteo borealis—Red-tailed hawk. 2 speci- 
mens, presented by Robert Smith, Greene, N. Y. 
July 29 Megascops asio—Screech Owl. One speci- 
men, presented by A. W. Perrior, Syracuse, N, Y 
Aug. 23 Buteo borealis—Red tail hawk. One speci- 
men, presented by F. H. Williams, Greene, N. Y. 
Aug. 25 Haliztus leucocephalus—Bald eagle. 2speci- 
mens. Dewey and Caiumbia. Hatched June 13, 1899, 
at Sucker Lake, Mich., presented by A. B. Pain and 
L. C. Fletcher, Paulding, Mich. i 
A number of other specimens have been 
offered and are to be shipped in as fast 
as the cages are ready to receive them. 
__ This work is progressing rapidly and 
Mr. Hornaday will soon be ready for any- 
thing and everything that comes. My 
readers are again urged to report to me, 
of to. Mr) Elornaday™ at’ the park,-any. 
specimens they may have in hand that 
they are willing to donate to this great 
institution. 
Remember that any specimen you may 
send will be credited to you first, and then 
to the RECREATION group. In years to 
come it will be an honor to any man or 
woman to have donated a specimen to the 
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New York Zoological Park in its early 
days. The names of all donors will be 
permanently registered in the records of 
the park and placed on the cages contain- 
ing these specimens. All animals re- 
ceived at the park will be acknowledged 
by mail, and through RECREATION. We 
want everything in the way of birds, mam- 
mals and reptiles. If you have anything 
in either class that you are willing to 
give, let me hear from you at once. 

A Milwaukee paper prints a long winded 
article criticising the Wisconsin game law 
which requires each person hunting ‘in 
ae state to take out a license at a cost of 
ihe 
The reporter claims that many people 
object to this law. No doubt the hordes 
of ignorant Italians, Bohemians, and 
other foreigners who go out every Sun- 
day and slaughter song birds will consid- 
er this law a hardship, but I wish the li- 
cense fee had been placed at $10 instead of 
$1. This would shut off a lot of these 
men, and decent sportsmen would be 
willing to pay the additional price for the 
sake of having these hunters muzzled. I 
hope soon to see the day when every state 
in the union will have a license law that 
will materially reduce the number of 
shooters. Then there will be more game 
for real sportsmen. 
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Carl Rungius, one of RECREATION’S 
staff artists who spent the summer and 
autumn in the Green river country, of 
Wyoming, met with a painful accident 
some weeks ago. While on the trail of 
the U. P. train robbers, with 2 state of- 
ficers, his horse fell with him and Mr. 
Rungius had a leg broken. He was 100 
miles from his camp at the time and had 
to ride this distance before he could get 
medical aid. This was a hard trial for him 
but he writes that he has recovered and 
is again on the trail. On August 2oth he 
killed a big grizzly and has the skin 
staked out near his tent. 

“Things have come toa pretty pass if these people 
may not undertake to secure the enforcement of right- 
eous laws without finding themselves the butt of cheap 
ridicule. In this resort by its opponents to such argu- 
ments, the League may find encouraging assurance 
that its growing influence is something with which 
illegal netters must reckon in New York waters.”— 
From the A, D. G. H. 
This is how Reynolds talks about one 
League. He predicted the other one 
would fail; but it has succeeded in spite of 
him. Now he vents his spleen on the 
president of that League by roaring 
about some game he killed 25 years ago. 
