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Finally, the osprey or fish hawk is ruled out as a poultry or game 
killer because it confines itself to fish only. And it certainly has as 
much or more right to fish than we have. It is an interesting sight 
to see one of these big birds come down to the surface of the water 
like a plummet, disappear partly beneath it, emerge, shake off the 
water and, with a sizable fish held lengthwise in its large talons, make 
for its huge nest on the top of a dead tree nearby. 
All these forms of wild life make the great outdoors more inter- 
esting. Let us protect and save what still remains. It is little enough. 
Let us become conservation-minded, which should now be the badge 
of good citizenship, and let us refrain from the primeval lust for 
killing. 
Riverside, Ill. 
Recollections 
By ORPHEUS MOYER SCHANTZ 
My INTEREST in out-of-door things began in 1907, definitely as a 
result of a number of articles which I sent to the Chicago Daily News. 
These brought an invitation from Jesse L. Smith to a Chicago Geo- 
graphic Society lecture at Fullerton Hall, Art Institute. That was 
the open door for me and brought me into a very delightful contact 
not only with Mr. Smith but with Ruthven Deane, John M. Blakely, 
Frank Woodruff of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and many others. 
On an excursion of the Geographic Society to Three Oaks, Mich., in 
1910, among a group of more than two hundred outdoor fans I made 
many more lasting friendships. 
In the beginning the ornithological interest was not a major 
hobby. I learned from association with Henry C. Cowles, Ruthven 
Deane, Henry J. Cox of the weather bureau, J. Paul Goode and other 
botanists, geologists, geographers, etc. In 1912 I became a director 
of the Chicago Geographic Society and for seven years was chairman 
of the excursion committee. 
Ruthven Deane was the first president of the Illinois Audubon 
Society and, when he wished to be relieved, he and Mr. Jesse L. Smith 
asked me to attend a director’s meeting, and at the next election of 
officers I was elected president, an office which I held for fifteen years. 
During that period Benjamin Gault’s check list was planned and pub- 
lished, Prof. Eifrig made a migration chart, and quite a lot of money 
was donated to the Society. 
For a number of years, before the Field Museum went into the 
public lecture field, we gave lecture courses at old Central Music Hall 
and once at the Sherman Hotel, where we presented Forbush, Murphy, 
Pearson, Oberholzer and other celebrities. Course tickets were sold 
to friends on the Gold Coast, Highland Park, Lake Forest, etc. We 
had a fine clientele and the lectures were well attended. 
In 1922 the A.O.U. met in Chicago at the Field Museum. It was 
a very successful meeting, and I met a number of celebrities, among 
them Dr. T. C. Roberts, whom I visited at the University of Minne- 
