PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



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New Jersey should ever have allowed a 

 man to be elected to the highest office in 

 their gift who is so pronounced a friend of 

 game law breakers as Voorhees is. It is 

 stranger still that in this enlightened 

 age of the world a man of ordinary 

 intelligence could be found who would 

 thus publicly proclaim himself in favor 

 of the wiping out of the birds, mam- 

 mals and fishes of an entire State. I do 

 not believe a parallel case exists in the 

 history of the United States. I do not be- 

 lieve any State has ever honored a man 

 with an election as Chief Executive who 

 would thus publicly and officially aid and 

 abet netters, dynamiters and game butch- 

 ers of all kinds. It is indeed fortunate that 

 the laws of New Jersey tie the hands of 

 this bird and fish destroyer, at least in a 

 measure. 



Brunswick, where he was widely known, as 

 well as in New York, for his benefactions, 

 his host of friends and his sympathies with 

 art and culture. He was a genuine sports- 

 man, a member of the L. A. $., and his loss 

 will be keenly felt by all who knew him. 



DR. ELLIOTT COUES DEAD. 



Prof. Elliott Coues, of Washington, 

 D. C, a world-famed naturalist, died on 

 Christmas day at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 

 after a surgical operation. He was born 

 in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1842, and was 

 graduated from the Columbian university, 

 in Washington, in 1861. He entered the 

 army as a medical cadet in 1862, and left it 

 as a surgeon many years later. He was a 

 member of at least 50 foreign and Ameri- 

 can scientific societies. 



His "Key to North American Birds" and 

 his "Check List of North American Birds" 

 are standard reference works everywhere. 



Edward T. Latham died suddenly at his 

 home, Langallen, New Brunswick, N. J., 

 on September 16th. 



For many years he was one of the fa- 

 miliar figures in New York city, as cash- 

 ier of the banking house of John Munroe 

 & Co. He lived with his mother in New 



RECREATION GROUP IS GROWING. 

 The following additions have been made to 

 the Recreation group in theNew York Zoo- 

 ogical Park since last report: 



Nov. 1. Blue Racer, presented by Percy Selous, Green- 

 ville, Mich. 



Nov. 18. Screech Owl, presented by Myron J. Wins- 

 low, Sloansville, N. Y. / 



Nov. 18. Opossum, presented by Roland H. Clark, 

 New York. 



Nov. ax. Opossum, presented by H. L. Allen, Prince's 

 Bay, New York. 



Dec. 14. Screech Owl, i specimen; 3 Opossums, pre- 

 sented by Orsamus S. Cottrell, Jr., Keyport, N.J. 



Dec. 16. Snowy Owl, presented by Mathias Grewer, 

 Glen Ullin, N. D. 



Dec. 20. Ring Dove, presented by George Harp, 

 Brinley, O. 



If you have not yet ordered a set of the 

 Hudson pictures, illustrating the poem 

 "To My Gun," you should do so at once. 

 Only a few sets were printed, and about 

 half of them have already been sold. No 

 more will be printed, as the plates were 

 too much worn in running the November 

 edition of Recreation to make any more 

 good impressions. Only $i for the 5 full 

 page artist's proofs. Nothing finer could 

 be found at the price, for decorating an 

 office, a dining-room, a parlor or a den. 



11 If a man who, after years of effort, should 

 have a great day and actually kill more than was 

 proper, why should all charity be forsaken ?" 



So says Reynolds, editor of the A. D. G. 

 H. He apologizes for the game hogs in 

 almost every issue. He thinks they should 

 be allowed full sway whenever they get a 

 chance to make a record. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



The Racine Boat Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, of Racine, Wisconsin, has issued a 

 catalogue that for fine pictures and ex- 

 haustive information breaks the record. It 

 has 17 full page half-tones and 102 smaller 

 cuts, each illustrating some important fea- 

 ture of boat building or a model of a boat, 

 or a picture of a boat under sail or under 

 steam. The engraving and printing are 

 of a high order, but the exhaustive descrip- 

 tions, instructions and hints contained in 

 the book are its most valuable feature after 

 all. You can here learn all you can pos- 

 sibly wish to know about the plan, con- 

 struction and operating of any kind of 

 boat, from a cedar canoe you can carry 

 under your arm, to a $20,000 pleasure 

 yacht. On page 50 there is a picture of a 

 6-oar ladies' barge in which 8 pretty girls 



are seated, and which is alone worth the 

 price of admission. This catalogue should 

 be in the hands of every man who is fond 

 of the water or who expects at any time 

 to navigate it, either for pleasure or on 

 business. You can get a copy by writ- 

 ing the company as above and saying you 

 saw it mentioned in Recreation. 



The new catalogue of the Stevens Arms 

 Company, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, 

 shows a complete line of fine rifles and pis- 

 tols made by this well-known house. It 

 contains a great deal of valuable informa- 

 tion on the subject of rifles, rifle shooting, 

 cartridges, powder, and is completely and 

 liberally illustrated. You can find in this 

 book a cut of every rifle and every pistol 

 made by this company, and of nearly every 



