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FOREST AND STREAM. 



THE WOODRUFF SCIENTIFIC EXPE- 

 DITION AROUND THE GLOBE. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Dk voted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 ktsh cui.tckk, tbe protection of game, preservation of forests, 

 and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a Healthy Interest 

 in out-door eecreation and study : 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1877. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, intended for publication, must be ac- 

 companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith, 

 and be addressed to the Forest and Stream: Publishing Company. 

 Names will not be published if objection be made. No anonymous con 

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 not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



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B&~ Trade supplied by American News Company. 

 CHARLES J0LAIXOCK, Editor. 



T. C. BANKS, S. H. TURRILL, Chicago, 



Business Manager. Western Manager. 



Dr. G. A. Stookwell. — This person, who has held position 

 as an assistant editor on this paper for the past four months, 

 is no longer connected with this office in any capacity, his 

 connection having been severed this week. 

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Swindled Again.— We have again been victimized to a large 

 amount, by irresponsible persons collecting our advertising 

 bills, and as there seems to be no legal recourse or means of 

 punishing the swindlers who constantly prey upon us, we 

 again beg our advertisers to extend to U3 their protection by 

 refusing, in accordance with the standing notice in this jour- 

 nal, to pay over any money to any but duly authorized per- 

 sons, bearing letters from either Mr. T. C. Banks, Business 

 Manager, or Chas. Hallock, President of the Forest and 

 Stream Publishing Company. 



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Away to the South. — The exodus lias begun. Already the 

 hosts of pleasure-seekers and health-seekers are following the 

 birds, and flying southward. The Old Dominion Line of 

 steamers had in one day, last.' Monday, sixty applications for 

 passage. Some of these go to the shooting grounds of Curri- 

 tuck and the vicinity, while others are bound to Florida and 

 the far South, where they will spend the winter. 



Oca Washington Letter.— We beg to again call attention 

 with becoming satisfaction to the admirable letter of our 

 Washington correspondent, Mr. R. F. Boiseau. There is a 

 vast deal of information contained in this and all his letters, 

 which is most valuable to sportsmen. 



—The Special Trains running to and from New Haven in 

 connection with steamers leaving Pier 25, E. R., have been 

 discontinued lor the season. The New Haven steamers leave 

 as usual at 3 p. m. anil 11 p. m., passengers can connect with 

 trains for North and East by taking horse cars from steamboat 

 dock to railroad depot at New Haven. 



The Game Laws.— There is in course of publication a Ger- 

 man edition of the game laws of this State, translated by Mr. 

 W- Thiesc. editor of the Sehueteen and Jagd Zrihinr, and 

 published it that paper. Mr. G. Lander, the proprietor of 

 that paper, intends to publish them also as a pamphlet, mum 

 rounded. 



A/T ANY of the readers of Foeest and Stream no doubt 

 -L'J- have, from time to time, seen allusions to this well 

 known excursion for pleasure-loving travelers and students of 

 science, and as the final arrangements for the start are now 

 being completed, a brief description of its object may possess 

 a certain degree of interest. It is proposed by Mr. Woodruff 

 and General David McCauley to convey a number of persons 

 so inclined around the globe in an ocean steamship, com- 

 manded by TJi Led States Naval officers, and thoroughly 

 found in evtry respect for scientific investigation and pur- 

 poses of pleasure. All are invited, male and female, scientific 

 and non-scientific, although special attention will be paid to 

 students to enable them to make their trip mentally profitable, 

 and for this purpose a competent and well selected corps of 

 scientists has been engaged, prominent among whom we may 

 mention Professors Jenney, Roth wick, Merriau, Barnard, 

 Corwine, and others. The ship will be provided with dredges, 

 swab-tangles, nets and all the other paraphernalia for deep 

 sea dredging, preserving tanks, cans, bottles, microscopes, 

 etc., etc., in short everything necessary for the use of the col- 

 lectors on board, and their specimens will be transported back 

 to New York free of charge. Lectures will be delivered at 

 stated times, with blackboard illustrations, which are fifce 

 to all, although not obligatory, aud practical instruction 

 will be given in the different modes of collecting 

 and preserving objects of natural history. Steam 

 launches are provided for short water excursions, and an 

 armament is carried to protect the passengers from danger 

 of too familiar savages ; for it should be stated that the ship 

 will touch at localities seldom or never visited by white men' 

 The programme is substantially as follows: Leaving New 

 York, the first stoppage will be made at the British West 

 Indies, from thence to the Coast of Brazil, mouth of Amazon, 

 Rio Janeiro, Monte Video, Valparaiso, Straits of Magellan 

 (to view the living glacial), Society Islands, Australia, Fiji, 

 and Sandwich Islands, Coast of China and Japan, visiting the 

 inland sea of the latter country and the rivers of the 

 former, Spice and Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean, •India, 

 Persian Gulf, Suez Canal to Mediterranean, up the Nile, 

 Myeairse Schliemanns excavation, Crimea, Coast of France, 

 and England, Straits of Gibraltar, and hence by the Azores. 

 In addition to the seaports visited,' a sum of $30,000 will be 

 placed in the hands of trustees to defray the cost of inland 

 excursions. For this trip, unequaled in point of attraction, 

 the very moderate sum of $2,000 is asked, a trifle over 

 $100 a month, much less than an ordinary tourist would 

 have to pay for a very commonplace European tour. It 

 should be remembered that this sum covers every expense- 

 board, transportation and instruction for those desirous of 

 being taught, and that such care has been exercised in the 

 selection of a faculty that students may prepare for any 

 college in the land while continuing their cruise. It should 

 also be mentioned that in addition to the naval surgeon 

 three other accomplished and practical medical men accom- 

 pany the expedition, hence every land party temporarily de- 

 tailed from the ship will be supplied with proper medical at- 

 tendance. The project seems to us most feasible and praise- 

 worthy, and it has met with the greatest encouragement from 

 all of our prominent scientific institutions and men. 



In conclusion, we offer our heartfelt congratulations to the 

 directors of the expedition, and trust that their trip may be 

 pleasant and profitable and serve but as the initiatory move- 

 ment for other excursions similar in character. 



Riverton, Conn., Oct. 16, 1S7T. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



As an ardent admirer and welt rewarded subscriber of Forest and 

 Stream, I take the liberty to say that I miss the •' Letters of Sports- 

 men," which constituted so interesting a feature of thu Rod and Gun. 

 In my opinion no department of that paper contributed ao largely (6 

 the education of young and amateur sport-men as did the letters from 

 such writers as "Boone," "Snap-Shot" (afterwards " Ilowoulah '') 

 "Royal," of cherished memory, and "Off-Hand," who ha' also been 

 "gathered in." Then there were the letters irom o'd buntT- in the 

 Far West and California, whose names I do not at the moment recall, 

 giving as their opinions relative to the most effective weapons and 

 manner of using them. Those from "Van Dyke" were of especial in- 

 terest 1 1 me, inasmuch as they emanated from one long used to rifle 

 shooting in the pursuit of game. 



I hope your enlarged and improved paper will ore long afford the 

 space for more of the same sort, and that the mantles of "Royal" aud 

 "Off-HaDd" may descend upon worthy shoulders, and may the inspira- 

 tions of "Boone" awaken echoes iu our hearts in the future as in the 

 past. None but one of nature's noblemen could have written "II ill and 

 Farewell." D - H - s - 



We certainly appreciate the friendly disposition evinced by 

 our esteemed correspondent. We deplore, with him, the ab- 

 sence of some (not all) of the familiar pens which he enumer- 

 ates, and regret that our columos do not longer invite their 

 attention. We like very much to have our weaknesses and 

 deficiencies pointed out, and if the columns of Forest and 

 Stream are really deteriorating, as his remarks Would seem to 

 imply, we trust that friends of the paper will rush to its 

 rescue and save it from disgrace and premature oblivion. The 

 standard of sporting literal ore is certainly advancing, and if 

 the pens of such eminent writers as Major Merrill, Com- 

 mander Beardslee, Judge Caton, D. G. Elliott, Professor 

 Marsh, Dr. Rowlings Young, Geo. Dawson, J. Matthews 

 Jones, Ernest Ingeisoll, R, F. Boiseau, Dr. Garllck, B. E. 

 Dueaigne, Prof. Harvey, and a hundred othfiMVfiterg i 

 eminent or popular do not till the bill, then we can assuredly 

 congratulate pOtt U« rapid. :uivme 



we must assume to have been made in belles-lettres, and all that 

 pertains to matters of science, metaphysics and domestic 

 economy. Nothing now remains for us to do but to politely 

 inform our gentlemen contributors that they arc not up to the 

 times. They must study to improve in order that their laurels 

 may not fade or the sun set upon the skin and dry boo 

 purely dead ideas. We invite attention to these few remarks. 



American Arms in the East.— American anus are play- 

 ing no small part in the contest now waging in the East. 

 The Providence Tool Company are just filling a new order of 

 100,000 Peabody -Martini rifles for the Turks, which will 

 make a total of 600,000 furnished during the last eighteen 

 months. The Winchester Arms Company has also furnished 

 a half million or more, and will receive more orders. Counting 

 the Kemingtons, with which the Egyptian troops arc armed, 

 it is but a moderate estimate to place the number of Ameri- 

 can rifles in use in the Ottoman Empire at three-fifths its 

 whole armament. The rapidity with which American arms 

 can be discharged is unequalled, giving an immense advan- 

 tage to a small body of troops ; and their supremacy has been 

 marked throughout the war, if we may believe a titho of the 

 accounts written, which describe the slaughter committed 

 among the Muscovites during their charges upon the Turkish 

 strongholds, as without parallel in history. It would seem 

 impossible for any body of troops to face the storm of bullets 

 that sweep the approaches, for the Turk is a sure marksman 

 at such short distances as two and three hundred yards. In 

 the Russian service there are, perhaps, 80,000 Remington 

 rifles, and the troops thus armed have been noted for their 

 efficiency in the field over those armed with the common 

 weapons— G or] off and Kimka rifles. America bids fair to 

 supply the world with small arms, so marked is their superi- 

 ority. It was the Winchester that enabled Bitting Bull to defy 

 and escape his pursuers, and Joseph lo so long baffle and de- 

 feat the flower of the regular army. American arms and 

 American forms of fortification, are contributing not, a little 

 to the prolongation of the Eastern war, and give the Rn 

 far more trouble than that fanaticism and valor for which the 

 Turks are so noted, and which makes them foemen worthy of 

 any nation's steel. 



Our Rifle Department.— We observe that two uew jour- 

 nals have been started in New T York, devoted expressly to 

 long-range rifle shooting and the interests of the National 

 Guard. While it might be deemed expedient by the National 

 Rifle Association to have an organ of its own, we bavc never 

 heard it intimated that any such organ was desired. The 

 Army and Nary Journal is a specialist in these matters, and 

 there are also the standard sporting papers, besides, which de- 

 vote a large share of their attention thereto. The Forest and 

 Stream and Rod and Gdn, especially, has been most assidu- 

 ous, from the start, in promoting the interests of long-ran w 

 rifle practice and the interests of riflemen, and most careful 

 and painstaking in the publication of scores, as well as impar- 

 tial and judicious in its study of general topics and disputed 

 questions, speaking fearlessly and without favor. It may, prop- 

 erly and without affectation, lay claim to the credit of having 

 co-operated with well-known gentlemen and been largely in- 

 strumental in initiating the movement in this country, and 

 promoting the competitions which have made it so popular 

 and given it a world-wide interest. We have been identi- 

 fied with it from the beginning. We first published the scores 

 made at the Creedmoor raDge, and ever since have been care- 

 ful always to print them with such accuracy as to make them 

 reliable for future reference. Editorially, we have always led 

 in those views and suggestions which have brought the rifle, 

 the range, and the rifle practice itself, to that perfection 

 which it has reached. Our columns of 1874 bear abundant 

 testimony to this assertion, and we do not expect that any 

 person, cognizant of this claim, will attempt to gainsay it, or 

 desire to do so. We know that our efforts have been, and are 

 appreciated, and believe that our paper has filled the bill to 

 the general satisfaction. At any rate, if it has not done so 

 here at home in America, it has done so in Europe. It is not 

 so much for the purpose of making objections to the enter- 

 prise of the gentlemen who think that the fittest of the two 

 new Rifle papers has a chance to survive the other, as to bring 

 the following testimony of the Royal Service Gazette, of Octo- 

 ber 6th, in support of what we have ventured to say. We make 

 the following quotations from this official paper, which has 

 usually, if not always, printed our reports in preference to 

 those of any other American journal, a courtesy which w-c 

 abundantly appreciate : 



"As for the match of this year, the very ample report 

 which we reprint from the excellent New York paper, Fojikst 

 and Stream, shows that the shooting was better than ever. 

 Sir Henry Hal ford and his comrades need take no shame to 

 have been beaten." 



" We are glad to be able to publish to-day very full details 

 of the International Mai ch at, Creedmoor, of which we gave 

 the result some time ago. The Report we print is taken from 

 the New York paper called Forest and Stream, to which we 

 have often directed our readers' attention. The analysis of 

 the shooting is most complete, and leaves, indeed, nothing to 

 be desired, while the descriptive writing is, if a Jittle more 

 florid than we are accustomed to iu accounts of rifle matches 

 at home, very graphic and amusing/' 



—Mr. John A. Nichols, of the firm of Nichols & Lefcver, 



Syracuse, lias presented to Sir Henry Halford an Indian birch 

 Sir Henry's estate, and will 

 be-a novel craft on English w-aters. Mr. Nichols also 

 to Sir Henry one of the firm's C'rcecuuoor rifles, 



