April, 1921 
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George, J. W. Scollick, and others. 
Personally I knew Mr. Wood for more 
than a quarter of a century; and for 
the past ten years I have been in his 
work-room several times a week. He 
usually passed the month of January in 
Auburndale, Fla., where he had long 
owned a fine orange and citron farm, 
which was one of his most valuable 
possessions. 
Mr. Wood was one of the several 
men who came from Ward’s Natural 
Science Establishment in Rochester, 
N. Y., and he was employed by Prof. 
Spencer F. Baird, the then Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution, on the 
working-staff of that famous museum. 
He had obtained employment at Ward’s 
through his old friend, Scollick, and was 
admitted by Dr. F. A. Lucas, now Di- 
rector of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, then second in charge at 
Ward’s Establishment. One of the 
first pieces of work, if not the first 
piece, given Wood to do was the restor- 
ing of a big patch of hair missing on 
some mounted mammal — an operation 
which required the placing of each in- 
dividual hair by making a puncture for 
it with a fine needle. But the tedious- 
ness of this task so irritated him that he 
pushed it to one side and begged to be 
employed on preserving birds — a class 
of work to which he soon gave his en- 
tire time and attention. 
Practically, Wood’s entire love was 
for birds, even including domestic fowls 
of all descriptions, though more par- 
ticularly various breeds of chickens and 
all varieties of doves and pigeons. He 
was a nature student of the old school, 
and continually studied the wild species 
of our birds in the woods and fields of 
the District of Columbia, as well as in 
Florida, while he gave considerable at- 
tention to the foreign forms in the well- 
known Pet Emporium of Mr. Edward 
S. Schmid, in Washington, where there 
was usually a large stock at his ser- 
vice. Without any instrument to as- 
sist him, he could imitate the notes and 
calls of more than a hundred species 
of our native birds so perfectly that the 
birds themselves were deceived, whether 
in cages or free. He kept many birds 
as pets, and especially loved a pet crow 
he had reared, which he had in his 
work-shop for several years. A small 
volume might be written upon this 
crow, and the extraordinary education 
it received from its master. On one 
occasion, many years ago, Mr. Wood 
and I happened to be crossing Long 
Bridge, over the Potomac River, below 
Washington. Some twenty crows, fly- 
ing in loose order, were passing high 
overhead, when, to my utter surprise 
(for I was not then familiar with Mr. 
Wood’s attainments in that line), he 
gave vent to the call of a crow in dire 
trouble. Imagine my astonishment upon 
seeing the flock of crows overhead stop 
in its course! They circled downwards 
in their flight, alighting all about him 
on the bridge railing at respectful dis- 
tances, and gave vent to a chorus of 
“caws,” to express their protests 
against the persecuting or torturing of 
one of their kind. Mr. Wood simply said : 
“Now what do you know about that!” 
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