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ing birds’ eggs, as, according to official reports, we once did have in Santa Bar- 
bara, we will have an institution which keeps for the inspection of all a represen- 
tation of each species. One set of eggs, under the centralized museum plan, will 
do the work of three hundred sets under the old wasteful, haphazard method. 
These important ends can only be secured by concerted, cooperative effort. 
And if Santa Barbara stands chiefly to benefit by this movement, we may urge 
that we are doing our full duty in providing the plant and in dedicating it to the 
larger use. It is for Science to realize its opportunity and privilege and to 
accept our hospitality, not a whit less genuine because our friends are asked to 
provide a part of the entertainment. 
The wider cooperation of which we have spoken is to be sought in a variety 
of ways. In the first place, we already have an important body of well-wishers, 
between fifty and sixty in number, organized as a Board of Visitors. This Board 
will act in an advisory capacity to the new institution, and its members are 
pledged to further the interests of the Museum of Comparative Oology in any 
way not conflicting with their own. The names given below, then, rather repre- 
sent than embody the larger scientific interest, for they are but a few of hun- 
dreds, although these are men and women eminent in ornithological science, edu- 
cators, and persons of affairs, as well as special authorities upon oology, and 
prominent collectors, who might reasonably be expected to interest themselves 
in such a cooperative institution. 
BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE OOLOGY 
Miss Annie M. Alexander 
William Frederic Bade 
R. Magoon Barnes 
A. C. Bent 
J. H. Bowles 
Rev. William A. Brewer 
Capt. Allan Brooks 
Harold C. Bryant 
H. W. Carriger 
W. Lee Chambers 
John Lewis Childs 
E. J. Court 
William H. Crocker 
Donald R. Dickey 
Barton W. Evermann 
W. L. Finley 
W. K. Fisher 
Joseph Grinnell 
O. W. Howard 
A. B. Howell 
J. Warren Jacobs 
Lynds Jones 
David Starr Jordan 
J. Eugene Law 
Joseph Mailliard 
G. Frean Morcom 
Mrs. Harriet W. Myers 
T. Gilbert Pearson 
J. R. Pemberton 
Milton S. Ray 
T. W. Richards 
Robert Ridgway 
Miss Ellen B. Scripps 
Clarence S. Sharp 
Miss Althea R. Sherman 
Robert W. Shufeldt 
O. P. Silliman 
John O. Snyder 
Harry S. Swarth 
Percy A. Taverner 
Col. John E. Thayer 
W. E. Clyde Todd 
Ray Lyman Wilbur 
Frank C. Willard 
George Willett 
Santa Barbara Members: 
Miss Charlotte Bowditch 
Rev. Dr. Chas. E. Deuel 
Rev. G. P. Goll 
Miss Gretchen Libby 
A. C. Olney 
A. P. Redington 
Col. Willis M. Slosson 
E. S. Spaulding 
A. H. Vilas 
Miss Donna I. Youmans 
For those who because of our pleasant embarrassment of riches in the way 
of friends could not be elected to membership on the Board of Visitors, we have 
devised a careful schedule of affiliated orders which should mark the various 
practicable degrees of desired cooperation. 
Of these an order of Fellows takes highest rank, comprising as it does those 
who donate or bequeath their life collections to the Museum of Comparative 
Oology, and who render her exclusive service. Then come Patron Collectors, 
Field Members, and Exchange Members, each with specified obligations and 
privileges. In a plan so far-reaching and inclusive, it is obviously impossible to 
touch upon all the details in this connection. 
The financial support of this institution is provided by an order of Patrons 
of the Museum of Comparative Oology, and the members of this order naturally 
