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Mr. Chubb is on vacation at Woodland, New York, and is obtaining 

 some additional nature photographs. A bleaching platform is being 

 erected on the roof, during his absence, for his use on returning to the 

 Museum. 



Mr. Barnum Brown is in London. 



It is not generally known that Dr. Jonathan Dwight has the largest 

 bird-collection extant illustrating plumage i)hases. It numbers over 

 50,000 specimens. It is as yet confined to land-birds. 



Dr. Joseph Simms, the donor of a number of specimens to the Mu- 

 seum, of which the most valuable and important are the mummied re- 

 mains of a Chinook Chief and Chieftainess, exhibited in the North Pacific 

 Hall, died recently. He bequeathed his body to Dr. Spitzka for scientifi c 

 purposes. 



Mrs. Ziska resumed work at the Museum on June 1st, after having 

 spent several months in Omaha. 



Among the temporary exhibits on view at the Museum in June was 

 a self-installed one consisting of a pair of robins living in apparent 

 comfort on a step of a fourth floor fire-escape, where they had built their 

 nest in full view of one of the Mineral Hall windows. In time three 

 infant robins w^ere hatched. They made their first timid flights along the 

 ledges of the building, but rapidly learned to make longer flights, and the 

 fire-escape nest is now empty. 



A still more striking instance of bird vagaries, however, is cited in 

 the Children's Newspaper, of London, which publishes a photograph of a 

 nest built by a pair of thrushes on the brake-lever of a wagon in a North 

 Stafford siding. The nest contained four eggs. 



Fred Christman has been commissioned to overhaul the car of our 

 blacksmith-farmer, Charlie Allgoever. It is rumored that Charlie is 

 planning to climb the Woolworth Tower, as he has successfully scaled 

 practically every fence and tree in the vicinity of Northport. 



