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Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ata it in-dicated carelessness on the persondoing it. Large eggs can be blownwith as small holes, if fresh. Everybody likes small holes, notpin points exactly, but holes thatlook small and neat. E. J. Darlington, Wilmington, Del. A Trip to Waynesburg, Pa. On November 13, 1914, it was mygreat privilege to go to Waynesburg,Pa., with the express purpose of visit-ing Sam S. Dickey, whom I had notseen before; but whom I had learnedto put confidence in through his let-ters. Incidentally, Waynesburg, taken asa whole, is the most pleasant andthoroughly enjoyed town I was everin, and I was never treated more roy-ally by friends or companions in all my life than by Sam Dickey. Since I stayed at the home of Prof.Dickey, who is not Sam Dickeysfather, but Sam himself, I naturallytreat him first. Overlooking a broadexpanse of country enchanting to abird student, is a medium sized, longroom, which Mr. Dickey, (or Prof.Dickey) calls the laboratory. Onone end wall hangs an oddity which THE OOLOGTST 15
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16 THE OOLOGI8T attracts immediate attention. A Be-wick Wrens nest—one of Prof. Dic-keys favorites, huddles neatly intothe cup of an old straw hat, wheretimes before it was doubtless shadedfrom the sun by the broad brim.Nearby is a bookcase where evidencesof Prof. Dickeys scientific researchare everywhere apparent. His notebooks and datas are by far the mostthorough, complete and wholly satis-factory set of works that I have everseen. To him a data is not completeif some history of the nest or egg snot present. He is never satisfiedwith one side of a data blank, andinvariably, I think, both sides aremoderately filled. Such thoroughnessmust have deep commendation I think.In the opposite end of the room,however, is the object to which everyeye turns, who is in search for thosethings for which Sam Dickey is noted.A magnificent case, built at great ex-pense, stands there, fitted with everymodern appliance for the preservingof those specimens which mark theadvance in stages of Prof. Dick

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