May 24 - New York and manuals I habit groups of birds in the Mus. Museum. These are nearly all much smaller that those attempted by Rowley in the Calif. Academy. I get the notion that all here are assembled that space permits. There is a continual complaint of lack of room. A new wing of the Museum has long been planned but the City has failed to come together with the appropriation. A nuisance in these big city museums is the number of dead zoological park animals that come in to be cared for. Very many of the skeletons as well as skins are acquired in this way. Strike Geo. Bird Grinnell for old volumes, or complete set, of Forest & Stream. He has a complete set and might part with it!