July, 1920 IN MEMORIAM: FRANK SLATER DAGGETT 133 
gists’ Union a year or so later. Mr. Daggett’s ‘‘Suggestion for forming Club 
chapters’’ (1901, p. 109) outlined a scheme that was later adopted by the 
Cooper Club, and very successfully. Another published letter of his (1911, p. 
78) urging expansion of the A. O. U. Check-List to include all of North Amer- 
_iea south to the Isthmus of Panama, we may assume to be again a correct in- 
sight into the.trend of future events. 
_ There has been one bird subspecies named for Mr. Daggett, Sphyrapicus 
varius daggetti, described by Grinnell (Condor, vol. 3, 1901, p. 12). Grinnell 
and Daggett, in collaboration, described the song sparrow of Coronados Islands, 
Melospiza coronatorum (Auk, vol. 20, 1903, p. 34). 
Mr. Daggett was ingenious and resourceful. His ingenuity found expres- 
sion in such things as the modifications he introduced into the accepted mode 
of preparing bird skins, in the types of cases he manufactured for the storage 
of his specimens, and in many details in the installation of exhipits during the 
first year or two of the Museum of History, Science and Art, when there was 
much to be done with but little help. His resourcefulness in dealing with 
people was a trait that was of great value in his Museum work, too, for with 
a governing board composed of nine individuals, and with a county board of 
supervisors in addition to be considered, there were bound to be clashing inter- 
ests that could not be reconciled. It speaks well of the Director of the Museum 
that he could have pursued his course and, in the main, attained his objects, 
and still retain the approbation and support of men whose ideas he often felt 
compelled to oppose. 
The writer recalls resourcefulness of another sort in an incident, the out- 
come of which caused Mr. Daggett the keenest satisfaction. A blackguardly 
sheriff’s officer of some sort, working in connivance with a corrupt justice of 
the peace (a combination of a kind that at that period flourished in Chicago), 
arrested him and a companion on the charge of breaking the law in shooting 
birds near one of the villages along the drainage canal, southwest of the city. 
Bail was placed at twenty dollars each, and the trial set some days ahead, the 
assumption being, of course, that men of such obviously prosperous appearance 
as the two prisoners would not appear at the time, forfeiting their bail as the 
simplest way out of the difficulty. This, however, did not appeal to Mr. Dag- 
gett in the least, and he was unkind enough to return to the city at once and in- 
stitute certain inquiries. The result of his discoveries was that the next morning 
the officer who arrested him was himself in the county jail, on charge of running 
a ‘“blind pig’’, and before the day was over he was, in a rather dazed state of 
mind, beginning to serve a jail sentence for the offense. At the time set for 
Mr. Daggett’s trial, he and his companion appeared, serene and untroubled, 
before a judge who was obviously disturbed, though unable to say much; the 
complaining witness was not on hand. The bail money was returned, with 
what grace the court could muster, and the incident was closed—for all but 
the luckless individual who had started the trouble. 
Mr. Daggett’s collection of bird skins numbered 8009 specimens at the 
time of his death. His collection of Coleoptera was also a large one. A large 
proportion, both of birds and beetles, was collected by himself, notably from 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida and southern California. He had besides a 
quantity of material, both ornithological and entomological, from Arizona. 
Bird skins were prepared by a method of his own devising, and his specimens 
