Notes Here and There 
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NOTES— HERE AND THERE 
Conducted by the Secretary 
Mr. B. T. Gault's new pocket Check List of the Birds of Illinois came 
from the press just in time for the Chicago meeting. This 80-page 
booklet, which is admirably arranged and durably printed, may be 
purchased of The Illinois Audubon Society, 10 So. LaSalle St., Chicago. 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, with 
which The Wilson Club is affiliated, is holding its meetings this year 
at Boston, December 26th to 30th. Next year The Association is sched- 
uled to meet at Cincinnati and at Washington in 1924. 
Messrs. A. C. Bent and Frank Willard spent the past spring in 
Arizona making field studies of the birds there. Mr. Bent secured some 
wonderfully fine photos as well as other material for his forthcoming 
volumes. Mr. Willard, who formerly lived at Tombstone, knew the 
ground as well as the birds. A better matched pair of field workers 
would be hard to find. 
Among the fine paintings shown in the recent exhibition at The 
Field Museum was one of Canada Geese, executed with an unusually 
fine color effect, by Courtney Brandreth. Admirers of this picture will 
be interested to know that it is reproduced, in colors, in the November 
Country Life in America, together with several other wild fowl paintings 
by the same artist. 
Rev. H. E. Wheeler of Conway, Ark., spent the month of July at 
Lake Junaluska in the high Alleghanies of western North Carolina, 
where he had opportunity to make some interesting studies of birds 
and in other branches of natural history. 
The considerable amount of nature book advertising has paved the 
way for a new monthly journal. The Nature Magazine, of Washington, 
D. C., proposes to treat of all forms of natural history in a popular 
manner. 
From Secretary Palmer, of the A. O. U., the writer is in receipt of a 
letter communicating a vote of thanks from that organization to The 
Wilson Club for the courtesies extended on the occasion of its recent 
meeting at Chicago. In reply we might truly say — “ the pleasure was 
ours.” 
A reporter of one of the Chicago papers sat in at one of the 
program sessions at the Chicago meeting and, when it was over, rushed 
to headquarters to write up half a column to cover. The entire space was 
given over to the nuptial scandals Mr. Baldwin had discovered among 
his colony of house wrens. Such is newspaper “ news va'ue.” 
Mr. H. A. Brandt of Cleveland spent several weeks the past spring 
in Utah and collected some nice sets of the rarer birds there. Mr. 
Brandt makes full use of the camera and notebook and has some choice 
material to show for his season’s work. 
