May 15 - D.C. has been married for about 3 years, and during this time his wife hasn't done a stroke of housework. She is his secretary! He has a very large private ornithological library containing very many rare and expensive sets, such as Ebis, J. Fuc O, etc., so that he has his literature right at hand. The feature of his work is his card list of the Birds of the World, planned to supersede Sharpe. Mrs. O. has done a vast amount of work on this, typing tousands of references. There are full records of genera and all higher groups as well as of species, and Oberholser plans ultimately to put out a new and revised classification of birds. He deals with all