Identifier: ologistforstud38albi ( find matches)
Title: The Oölogist: for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1921 ( 1920s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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that he decided while here tolocate a test farm and a winter homehere. At the time of Mr. Childsdeath, the writer had an option onthe greater part of Mr. Childs col-lections, which were to be joined withhis in the starting of the new MiamiBeach Museum of National History.While Mr. Barnes has stated in hisobituary of Mr. Childs in the Oologist,page 414, April 1921 that the cornerstone of Mr. Childs collection wasMiss Gene Bells Collection of Phila-delphia, this was somewhat mislead-ing, for Mr. Childs had disposed ofnearly all of the collection early inthe game, and had built up almost anew collection entirely. The oldtimers in the Oologist game willeasily recall the disrepute the GeneBell collection got into, and Mr. Childsand I often discussed certain setsand their collectors, while we werevisiting each other. He destroyedseveral sets on my recommendation,for he knew that I had met personal-ly and seen practically all the bestprivate collectors and their collec- r: i THt OOLOQIST loi
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104 THE OOLOQI8T tions, and had collected from coastto coast. Mr. Childs was a great friend ofJohn Burroughs, and I had the pleas-ure of meeting Mr. Burroughs at Mr.Childs home, where we were bothvisitors at the same time. The fol-lowing data gives a good sketch ofMr. Childs life. The photos are, nodoubt, the last pictures taken of Mr.Childs before his death. They weretaken on a picnic to Royal State,Palm Beach, Florida, New Years Day,1921. The single picture of Mr.Childs we called Uncle John pawn-ing his overcoat, and he was muchpleased with it and the title hewrote. The other photo taken thesame day shows Mr. Childs with bothhands on the arms of my oldest son;next to him with gray head and mus-tache, the well known veteran Con-chologist, Dr. Chas. Torrey Simpson;the writer with arm linked in that ofDr. Simpson; and the writers wifeand other three children and Mr.Dorian, wife and child It was amerry party and how he enjoyed thebeautiful over-loaded fruit groves ofRedlands, Princeton,

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