May 23 New York 71 change of the ornithology department, with two assistants. Miller says Chapman's interest are now wholly concentrated on S. Amer. Dr. Dwight has his own N.Amer. collections here in a separate room, specially outfitted with cases by himself; and the Museum has apparently left it to him to gather material from N.Amer. In manuals I am surprised at the lack of curatorial care shown by the collections, and this holds in a degree for the birds, too. Nothing seems to be up to date, either in the arrangement or labelling of specimens. As admitted by an assistant, everything is left to inexperienced persons to catalog, and no one checks up for mistakes, of which I