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thologists to collect bird skins in large series, and that he had 
rare skill in preparing them. Not only was his handiwork dis- 
tinctly superior to that of any other of his contemporaries — 
including even the professionals — but it scarcely suffers by 
comparison with the best work of the present day. Moreover it 
reveals the interesting fact that he knew and practised, if he did 
not originate, as far back as 1860, certain methods of taxidermy 
which are popularly supposed to have been discovered within the 
past twenty-five or thirty years. 
T have published during the year : — 
In Country Life in America, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 688, 690 : — 
Mr. Brunner’s Grouse Pictures. 
In the Condor, Vol. 7, pp. 95-96 : — 
The Future Problems and Aims of Ornithology. A letter. 
