64 May 28 - Phila. rest, 3/4 at least, were kept 15 years or so before they came into the Academy's other possession and were cleaned, with the result that a very large proportion were found to have "grease-rotted." The skins, too, are many of them in bad shape, as they were simply dried inside out in the field, with a cross- quill in the tail. When made up, but poor results were obtained! Vaux (J. Swift fame) is pronounced "Vox"! He was a Philadelphian who died about 1880. For humor, Stone recommend reading Hatch, Birds of Minnesota, pp. 340-341. Dr. Stone showed me part of the very large number of type specimen of birds in the Academy's possession. There are large numbers of Gould's