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than Springfield. Whittridge, of Amherst, didn’t put any 
faith in contracts. He thought the representatives of the 
colleges of the best part of America should not put them- 
selves under the control of the blacklegs of Saratoga, 
Rev. Mr. Twitchell, of Hartford, was allowed to express 
his views, which were opposed to Saratoga. It would be 
found that the seMction of Saratoga would be a bad-thing, 
and tend to break up the Association, Goodwin, of Har- 
vard, spoke in favor. of New London as very accessible, 
and salt water asa great improvement over fresh water, 
hot summer resorts.. Cook, of Yale, wanted a’ fair race, 
and the best place was the best course. He did not want 
to work a year and then lose all by a foul. He believed in 
taking the course out of New England if necessary, and 
the morality of the men depended on themselves. Dana, 
of Harvard, spoke in favor of New London. Finally, it 
was voted to row the race at Saratoga, and to refuse any of 
the money or prizes offered by the Saratoga Association, or 
by anybody except the College Association itself. The 
vote for Saratoga was: Yeas—Bowdoin, Cornell, Colum- 
bia, Agriculturals, Trinity, Yale, Williams, Princeton, 
Wesleyans. Nays—Amherst, Dartmouth, Harvard. 
After the vote, Mr. B. F. Brady returned thanks on be- 
half of the Saratoga Association, 
Two sets of flags, same as last year, were voted to be 
bought for the winners of the University and Freshmen 
races, and that the maker agree to subsequently inscribe 
thereon the names of the winning crews in order and their 
competitors. It was ordered that the flags be not presented 
until the official decision of the referee is made. A pamph- 
let was ordered printed giving the history, so far, of the 
Association. A motion for a pair-oar race was lost. 
It was voted to havea committee of three delegates of 
the competing colleges take charge of the regatta, these 
three to be selected by a committee of delegates, each nam- 
ing a man, and reduced to three by a marking list. The 
regatta committee was instructed to devise a plan to distin- 
guish the boats in a race. 
The race was fixed for July 16th, 1874, and the following 
is the preliminary regatta committee:—Amherst, Brewer; 
Agricultural, Benedict; Columbia, Thompson; Bowdoin, 
Harriman; Cornell, Randall; Wesleyan, Dorchester; Yale, 
Cook; Dartmouth, Aiken; Trinity, McKennon; Harvard, 
Appleton; Princeton, Nicoll; Williams, Hubbell. Each 
college was instructed to send its rowing statistics to the 
Secretary before the next meeting, which will be in Spring- 
field in January, 1875. 
It was not supposed that Saratoga would be selected by 
such a large majority of the Association, but after all, the 
Saratoga Rowing Association laid their plans well, and 
were well represented by a generous, whole souled depu- 
tation, who were not backward in enjoying and making 
all concerned participate in all the delicacies of the season, 
solid and liquid. However, if their promises are carried 
out, it is not probable that the colleges will regret their 
choice. 
The subject of a four-oared race was not touched upon 
at all, though it is probable a few years hence that four- 
oared races will supercede the all-prevailing six-oared races 
of the present day among colleges, as such is the individual 
expression of a good many now. 
A movement is also on the boards for a grand inter-col- 
legiate oratorical and literary demonstration, to take place 
at Saratoga with the July regatta, and is meeting with 
much favor. If carried out as suggested it will be highly 
popular. * * * PTarerR.—On Saturday there was a full 
meeting of the Amherst Boating Club, when it was unani- 
mously resolved that the holding of the regatta at Sara- 
toga would be prejudicial to the interests of the rowing as- 
sociations in general, and particularly of Amherst, and 
accordingly, that Amherst will not row at Saratoga. It is 
probable that the class regatta will take place at Hatfield, 
on the Connecticut River, during commencement week. 
There seems to be quite an amount of feeling, not fully ap- 
preciated at Hartford, which is now developing itself at 
Harvard, in regard to the selection of Saratoga as the place 
of contest. Ido not think the professors of the leading 
colleges are very much pleased with the ground selected, 
I am not prepared to state whether they have not very good 
reasons for withholding their sanction. The matter is by 
no means to be considered in the least as reflecting on the 
generous conduct of the Saratoga Rowing Association. If 
a distinction is drawn, it is more against the place itself 
and the increasing prominence Saratoga is taking as a 
sporting resort in the worst acceptation of the name, Of 
course we all regret that there should be any differences, 
but they certainly do exist. W. 
—e— . 
Princeton, N. J., January 26th, 1874. 
Eprror Forest anp STREAM :— 
Princeton has at last been aroused from her lethargy in 
boating matters; the preliminary steps in this respect were 
taken on Wednesday, January 21st, when delegates were 
sent to the Convention of College boating men. This isa 
new era in the history of Princeton athletic exercises, and 
we hail it with unbounded delight. We feel that what 
Princeton undertakes to do, that she accomplishes in the 
most satisfactory and commendable manner. We do not 
anticipate victory at the outset, but victory shall be the 
goal towards which our most strenuous efforts, from this 
time, will be directed, and which, when the great vantage 
ground now possessed by the other colleges shall have been 
gained by Princeton’s indomitable perseverance, we will 
then strive to attain, and when so attained our history of 
’ the past proves our ability to maintain. Not with boating 
matters have we ever been identified, but the excellence 

FOREST AND STREAM. . 
which we have achieved in wielding the ash, and the vic- 
tory we have gained in football, and our indisputable suc- 
cess in ever keeping fresh the laurels which we have won, 
warrant our present debut upon the water, and we feel that 
our representatives will reflect eredit upon themselves as 
well as their Alma Mater. 
Owing to the depletion of our treasury, circulars were 
sent last week to the graduates and friends of the College, 
since which time various sums of money have been re- 
ceived. Among our receipts, we cannot refrain from not- 
ing that of a check for $2,000 from Robert G. Bonner, of 
New York city, for the construction of a boat-house, a 
building which, for a long time, we have stood sorely in 
need of, 
May this munificent contribution prove the ‘‘star in the 
east,” and may many who are interested in Princeton’s suc- 
cesses follow it, and by their influence initiate a pilgrimage, 
so that when this luminary shall have stood over Prince. 
ton’s training ground, the canal, ‘‘frankincense and myrrh” 
may be freely bestowed. ““CHAMPION.”. 
—S ee 
New Haven, Conn., January 26th, 1874. 
Eprror Forrsr anp Stream: — 
Boating items at New Haven are quite lively. Jmprimis, the Yale 
Boat Club will change the locality of their boat house, It is questionable 
as yet where the new house will be erected, but Mr. Ferry, the Presi- 
dent, and Capt. Cook are carefully studying up the matter. Whitney 
Lake was first thought of as a convenient place, but at last.it has been 
decided, and the Mill river site on the Fair Haven side of the harbor, 
near Chapel Street Bridge, has been pitched upon. Something substan- 
tial is thought of as to the construction of the house, a foundation of 
stone with a neat wooden superstructure. The ollegiate Professors 
have- taken a proper interest in the matter, and it is hoped that the 
money necessary for the undertaking will be furnished. It would be 
most desirable that the boat-house should be finished at an early season, 
as there 1s nothing more disagreeable than for a boating crew to get into 
training without some proper attention being paid to their creature com- 
forts. There isevery reason to suppose that the season of 1874 will bea 
most active boating one. A great many excellent men are anxious to 
be included in our University crew. As yet itis too early to determine 
who will be the lucky ones, but it looks as if J. Kennedy, G. L. Brown- 
ell, C. N. Fowler, C. B. Rockwood, M. G. Nixon, and F. Wood would be 
in the winuiug boat. If Yale should win, of course Capt. Cook is inclu- 
ded. We haye hopes of getting early at work next season. THOLE. 
23 
—The Yale University crew has been selected, and is 
practicing daily in the college gymnasium. The crew at 
present consists of Cook and Fowler, ’76; Kennedy, Brown- 
well, Wood and Nixon, of the Scientific School. 
are oes 
—The following doggerel, which we take from the Lon- 
don Field, is quite good, and might be of use to our yacht- 
men in preventing a collision:— 
When both side lights you see ahead, 
Port your helm, and show your red; 
Green to green, or red to red, 
Perfect safety, go ahead. 
If to your starboard red appear, 
*Tis your duty to keep clear; 
To act as Judgment says is proper, 
To port or starboard, back or stop her. 
But if upon your port is seen 
A steamer’s starboard light of green, 
There’s not so much for you to do, 
For green to port keeps clear of you. 
Both in safety and in doubt 
Always keep a good look out; 
In danger, with no room to turn, 
Hase her; stop her, go astern. 
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~ from her writings, and a memoir. By James Parton. With illustra- 
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Of this gifted authoress itis pleasant for us to speak, It was our good 
fortune to have personally known “Fanny Fern,” and in speaking of 
this memoir by James Parton we do not intend to go into a lengthy lit- 
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another household treasure, added to those which have gone before. Jas, 
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Willis. Andthe Carletons have placed this valuable work before the 
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GAZETEER OF THE STATE or MAssAcuusrrrs. 
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This work is the last and most concise work published. Her citizens 
have long felt the want of a correct and reliable gazetteer of the Old 
Bay State. There is areal freshness about this record of the past and 
the present that is not lessened by its minuteness of detail, its pictorial 
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of Prof. Marsh of Yale College, our highest authority on this branch of 
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Key to Norra American Binps. Containing a concise 
account of every species of Living and Fossil Bird at present known 
States and Mexican boun- 
dary. Mlustratea by six steel plates and upward of 250 wood cuts. By 
Dr, Elliott Coues, U.S.A. Salem: Naturalist’s Agency, Boston. Es- 
tes & Laureat, New York: Dodd & Mead. Large 8vo. 








endorsing it asa val- 
: ¢ ) and one which, moreover, satisfacto- 
rily fills a place in the literature of the science hitherto entirely unocu- 




The author's idea in preparing the yolume appears to haye been the 
production of a text book on the subject which, while presenting a com- 
plete exposition of the present state of the science, should be adapted ex- 
pressly to the needs of the beginner and the amateur. Not that the 
work should nof taxe a position in the standard literature of the science 
as recognized and used by professional ornithologists, but that it shoulda 
also put the matter before the uninitiated in a way to make them under- 
stand it, even though they have had no previous experience in ornithol- 
ogy whatever. No one can now be deterred from entering upon this pur- 
Suit by fear of the sesquipeaalian technicafities that hedge it about; for 
in this work the path is smoothed and made perfectly clear. 
The volume is divided into three parts. First we have an Introduction, 
which is a clear and concise expositien of the leading principles of the sci- 
ence, with a mipute description of what the author calls the “topography”? 
of a bird, to which is added, incidentally, as it were, a considerable ac- 
count of anatomy; the whole representing a definition and explanation 
of all the terms ordinarily used in descriptive ornithology, familiarity 
with which is essential to understanding of the subject. A student who 
masters these few pages can appreciatingly and intelligently understand 
pretty much anything he may find in the whole range of ornithological 
literature. _ i 
The “Key” proper is a continuous artificial analytical table of some 
half-dozen pages, similar in plan to those which haye been found so use- 
ful in Botany, by means of which any specimen of North American bird 
may immediately be referred to its proper species, genus and family. 
Nothing is required to use this Key with facility and success, but the 
“little learning” that the Introduction Supplies. Although apparently 
intricate, this Key, entirely original wifthe author, is as simple as pos- 
sible, the student being oniy required to decide for himself in eachin- 
stance,.whether the specimen he hag in his hand shows or does not 
show a given character. By this process of elimination he arrives at 
length at the name of a genus, which is that to which the specimen be- 
longs, and is readily found in the body of the work. 
The main body of the work is what is modestly called merely a Synop- 
sis of North American Birds; but itis really an extended treatise on the 
subject. A synopsis might have been Prepared fully up to the require- 
ments implied in such aname, with only a brief definition of each spe- 
cies. But we have much more than this. Under head of each species a 
complete and lucid description is given, often including the various 
plumages depending upon sex, age and season; the scientific and vernac- 
ular names are presented; the geographical distribution is given in ey- 
ery instance,as are also references to various standard authors,as Wilson, 
Nuttall, Audubon and Baird, &c., as well as various late memoirs of im, 
portance, scattered through the publications of our scicntific societies, 
Although the plan of the work does not include biographies of the birds- 
many terse and pointed indications of habits and other peculiarities are 
inserted. The author seems. to have been continually struggling with 
himself to keep out things that he would giadly have enlarged upon, but 
which the limits he had set for himself forbade. 
=. The Synopsis has another and very important feature, the absence of 
which from a “‘synopsis”’ might have been deplored, but could not have 
been charged as a defect to the author. We refer to the excellent char’ 
aeterization of the families and higher groups. Each such group is 
trenchantly defined, in every casein which the present state of the sci- 
ence admits of such definitlon, and the definitions are based not only 
upon American forms, but upon exotic as well. The leading character- 
istics of the groups are sketched with a bold, free hand, giving the stu- 
dent further insight into the subject, and making him acquainted with 
the groups at large, as well as with their special American replesenta- * 
tives. These characterizations have been pronounced by high European 
authority to be the best that have appeared, especially in so far as they 
relate to the difficulties and uncertainties of classification. To the profes- 
sional ornithologist the synopsis is especially valuable, since in it almost 
for the first time in a general work, critical discrimination is made be- 
tween “‘species’’ and mere geographical ‘varieties’ distinction long 
needed, yet owing partly to the cramping of ideas by the binomial no- 
menclature, a reform late incoming. 
We should not omit toadd that the volume contains an account of the 
Fossil birds of this country, now for the first time presented in connected 
penne rant hhh 
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Canapran StTaTisTics.—The following statistics in re- 
gard to the population of Canada, taken from the Canadian 
Monthly, are interesting:—In 1861 the population of what 
is now the Dominion of Canada, exclusive of Prince Ed- 
ward’s Island, was 3,090,561; in 1871 it was found to be 
3,485,761, or about an increase of 12.21 per cent., or of 
about 1.22 per cent. per annum. This shows that emigra- 
tion has been directed from Canada to the United States 
The area of the Dominion of Canada was 215,892,020 acres 
in 1871, but since that time has been extended. There is 
ample room in it for 200,000,000 people. In 1871 it was 
occupied by 622,719 families, living in 572,713 houses. 
There were 1,764,311 males and 1,721,450 females in 1871, 
showing an excess of 40,000 females. Of Indians, accord- 
ing to the census of 1871, there were 23,035, showing an . 
increase of 51 per cent. in the last ten years, which is a les- 
son in which the United States might profit by knowing 
how it was done. It seems that the augmentation, though 
really due in some respects to a natural increase, is rather 
due toa more careful counting of the Indians. Of ne- 
groes, in 1861, there were 18,921 persons; in 1871 our Af- 
rican cousins had increased to 21,496. Of the whole white 
population 31.1 of them are of French origin, 24.2 of Irish, 
20.2 of English, 15.8 of Scotch, and 6.6 of German or 
Dutch origin, In 1872 6,591,339 tons of shipping entered 
the Dominion, being nearly two tons to each inhabitant, 















































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