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THE WILSON BULLETIN— March, 1922 
played neutral and tried with a lone hand to at least land second place; 
he scored a poor third with 40 names. H. L, Stoddard used a rabbit’s 
foot — or perhaps a lucky duck hawk’s claw — and led with a total of 22 
new members. Dr. Stephens is responbile for 14 names, Brasher C. 
Bacon put Kentucky on the map with 12, Eric A. Doolittle showed that 
there’s nothing in a name when he sent in a total of 8, Editor Jones and 
Treasurer Fordyce, from their points of vantage, stamped 11 and 6 ap- 
plications respectively with their approval. Others sending in 5 or more 
were Miss Sherman and Messrs. Eifrig, Bales, Hunt, Stoner, LaPrade and 
Mayfield. The current year should show even better results since our work- 
ers are getting into practice and have given some thought to “ lining up ” 
prospective membership material. All members who wish to assist in 
extending the membership should write to the Secretary for application 
blanks, etc. 
The Museum of Comparative Oology of Santa Barbara, Cal., an- 
nounces plans for the construction of an attractive building for its col- 
lections and expects to be in its new quarters by summer. The building 
will be of the mission type, fireproof, and will provide 5,000 square feet 
of floor space. 
Hon. R. M. Barnes of Lacon, 111., publisher of The Oologist, an- 
nounces that the new Standard Catalog of North American Birds’ Eggs 
will be off the press by spring. It is expected that the catalog will be- 
come the universally used medium of exchange for oological specimens. 
The practice of planting windbrakes of pine, cedar and other ever- 
greens about the farmsteads in the northwest is said to be becoming 
more and more widespread and incidentally the birds are being thus af- 
forded a haven in time of blizzards. 
Mr. Harold H. Bailey of Miami Beach, Fla., is preparing the manu- 
script for a book on the breeding birds of Florida, similar to his work 
on Virginia birds. Mr. Bailey is anxious that unpublished breeding rec- 
ords of Florida birds be furnished him. 
The late annual meeting, minutes of which are printed elsewhere, 
was one of the most successful in the history of The Club. 
The Okefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia is one of the great 
natural curiosities of the country and a “last stand” for a number of 
species of birds. Recently the heavy inroads of lumbermen into its won- 
derful moss-clad forests of cypress has brought forth organized effort to 
acquire the swamp for a National Monument. As such it would serve as 
a bird sanctuary, game preserve and mecca for the naturalist for all 
future time. The Okefenokee is 22 miles wide and 30 miles long. 
The California Nature Study League, under the guidance of its 
president, Mr. G. M. Goethe, of Sacramento, is carrying on a worth while 
campaign with a view of interesting the public in the study of nature 
and the great outdoors. One feature of the work is the issuing of an 
illustrated monthly leaflet, most interestingly written, each issue calling 
attention to some interesting species which may be found near at hand. 
The circulation of the leaflet is said to reach a quarter million readers. 
