and then to writs a well illustrated book on tha island binds. 
The English bokks ana all rig'nb so far as illustrations go, but 
bhe latter press is for the most part rather poor, except where Perkin's 
material is ihcoporated. Were it not for Bryan I should make some prop¬ 
osition of the sort to Brigham.Bryan is in charge of the birds,and he is a 
very good ornithologist T think.He has fir the present all he can do 
mounting birds for the Museum,but later I imagine will have time to take up 
the island birds and to write about them. 
The Museum has a great deal of money if the Trustees oan be induoed 
to appropriate it,but they are business men with no inkling of soienoe 
or of its iinpor tanoe, and Brigham has some lively times with them.Most of 
them he hates,and the feeling is returned in the same or even larger measure 
You must have a lot of very interesting material from Southern,or 
rat-ter from;E,ower Californi a v Kith-thembwematerial ’ you : h&ve the avifauna- 
°f the penainsalfe. will be pretty thoroughly worked out. Vfas it not in 
Bird Bore that the photos.of the bird rookeries there were published. 
They were simply wonderful,and might well be reproduced in your paper. 
ffher photography oan be brought in,it adds wonderfully to the interest 
of a paper,and some of the work done nowadays in this line is remarkably 
good.Meyer has just published some photos of Fish Hawks which give a 
mighty good idea of the birds method of nesting-better than a dozen 
pages of print.I would that I had the courage to tackle some of the sub¬ 
jects in Hawaii,but I fancy that the conditions here might try the best 
skill and patience of eithov* + u ~ * ■ — 
either the American or English experts in this 
