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winter of 1891 and the spring and summer of 1892 by parties 
sent out from the Laboratory, and mounted by Mr. Adams him- 
self. As it was quite impossible to make a complete collection 
of the birds of the State within so short a time, the deficiencies 
remaining were supplied by selections made from the museums 
of the University of Illinois, at Champaign, and of the State 
Board of Agriculture at Springfield, and by purchase of skins 
from taxidermists. 
The entomological exhibit was likewise provided in part 
from special collections made by Laboratory employees and by 
assistants especially engaged for the purpose, and in still greater 
part from the cabinets of the State Laboratory and of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. 
The beautiful colored drawings, one hundred and one in 
number, distributed through the entomological exhibit to illus- 
trate species too small to be well seen by the naked eye, were 
made at the State Laboratory for the purpose by Miss Lydia 
M. Hart, the special artist of the establishment. 
The ichthyological collections were all made during the 
season Of 1893 by assistants sent from the Laboratory, Mr. J. E. 
Hallinen, a student of the University, doing the greater part of 
the field and laboratory work. 
It may be proper to place on record here some statement of 
the manner in which this exhibit was received by those best. 
qualified to appreciate it. In the 4uk* for October, 1893, Mr. 
Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, at Central Park, New York, writes in an article on ‘‘ Orni- 
thology at the World’s Fair,” that ‘Illinois was easily the leader 
in the department of local collections representing the bird life 
of a state or province. Its collection,” he says, ‘‘ placed in the 
State Building, is well mounted, and the method of arrange- 
ment is one which might well be followed in the display of sim- 
ilar collections.”” Elsewhere he says that it is by far the best 
state collection that he has ever seen. Mr. Robert Ridgway, 
Curator of Ornithology to the United States National Museum, 
writes of it also as ‘‘incomparably superior to any other state ex- 
hibit at the Fair, and a very close competitor with the Government 
exhibit.” He says, ‘‘I do not see how, making due allowance 
for limited time and means, it could have been improved.” 
*A quarterly journal, the organ of the American Ornithologists’ Union. 
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