Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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"May 26 N.Y. characters were modified within two weeks after the operation. All I wish to show powerful influence of hormones secreted there and carried through the body from the testes. Yesterday at the Bronx, visited the Zoo and met Hornaday, Ditmar and Lee Candall. Saw the "Natural Collection of Heads & Horns" under escort of Dr. Hornaday, in Administrate Building. This collection, including also large paintings of mammals by Remigio, is evidently a tool of Hornaday's in getting and holding the interest of wealthy sportsmen in the Zoological Park, the latter depending largely on annual membership fees and subscription for its support. Dr. Hornaday is not as vigorous-looking and -talking as he writes. Yet, one gets the