The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-13
UNIVERSITY OF WARRINGTON.
over Two Hundred BIRDS Secured
FrDus Alaska

Lh>iix OF WARRINGTON.
over Two Hundred Rfrds Secured
Frspru Alaska
NE University .. wsshtnw -cn has fuss
fecAse3 pleasant visit from Nathan
Russell Harrington. an assistant N he
cepArt-nent % zoology az Columbia Uni
V-rssiy. New YORK Nj Harrington q
the as returning member O. that uni
serStFs summer expedition 20 Page.
soanc. the others having left about Al
snsi Is This evo%ait o. made hsa ionar-
e~rs at Port Townsend having arrived
laeTe June IL They a once constructed
temporary bat elaborate marine laho-
ratory. ard Set diligently 20 work Tn.
oers OF ne party were as follows:
IT nas7fo-S Dean adjunct professor o.
400 fsy Gary y. CaikiuS tutor IN yao'ogy.
Ma han Russell Harrington assistant /,
s.soiosy, E 3. Grim. fel'ox In zoology.
mere were several visitors and transient
mem hers from time 20 ssrnA TheSa IN
ciua~d DR. II. F Osborne. head r-oee-xo-
OF zoology n Columbia University 0r
Israel c Russell. professor OF zoology
~ 'he University - Michigan. John Muir.
o. Tiacier fame: Francis O ILovd u-o-
0, natural history r. Paci4c Uni
Verslfy, Forest Grove Or TIE narrv vrz.
greatly surprised AZ ne Abundance =.
new biological material and continued IA
MAKE interesting discoveries un,fl N.
tfne OF their departure One interesting
shFnr's~ was the size Of The rsitous ~,
Puget Sound. On the Atlantis coas. soert-
''s an men long were greAiily boarded
s"' aseo IN the iab-ors Dries Here they
Iouhn he huge crvDtochftcns nearly go.
tons' and IL vas natural that they should
collect large number 81 them for their
iacora tor'es- AL the members Of The nar.
" collected from the entire fed snt NJ
pTiHin made speciality OF the nArna-.5ra
worms. M. Calktns worked eSre.tsrlx- an
tne Lhcyerna. para site in the oetoous
So "f' HafTinston's especial care vas
EI'eh 20 ne Enterosconcha q gasteroood.
SnA" parasite. In the large. soft holo-
tlHrlans, o. sea-cucuulbe-rS He rsrnsfnas
on the ground from August Is 70 ss,,srn-
Der . searching for this Interesting form
IN the 'ast day Of his search he d~edxag
- tVp large hol3thgr.Sns ana gse- only
t"o or the parasites They are rave ara
nara 10 get, and therefore all The rnors
A"teresiFlg Prof. Dean, the chief Of the
party. also had an engrosSinz specially.
the rat-hsh or HydrolaEus c0illarf This
fish occupies mos, renarkahle r,s,tio,
IN the scale OF life II is he center OF
three radiating groups OF fishes. having
some or the characteristics OF the canoids
tSturgeons). elasTno brsnchs (sharks1 ana
'e4eosts ttrue bony ashes). besides char
4cteristics belong ng 10 Itself alone. Prof
"a" was IN search or embryos OF this
ash. Learning that the eggs vera far
NAer developed at Monterey bay, he at
once went there and obtained twenty
seven stages OF the rat-fsh ernbrvos
ihese are only a few OF the sp~a,tal raa
lures OF the work. They obtaines. rrea.
quantities OF other material. and there ia
Attle doubt that The success OF the ex-
petition viii prove 50 great that other sim
liar expeditions viii come TO Puget Sound.
4 Aaf Ia
seattle. and the University OF Washing
ION VIII have plenty OF assistance here
after In their natural history researches
Henry H Hindsha1. curator Of the uni
fetslty museum, who went 10 Alaska in
July with Prof. Lewis L. Dyche, OF Kan
sas University, has just returned Prof.
Dyche went on 70 Cook inlet. and has
been busily engared collecting wild sheen
tOvis damp and other anlma,s and birds
lie IS being very successful and VIII re-
turn 20 Seattle about October / Mr.
H.ndshaw worked for two months In the
vicinity OF Sitka and obtained a large
amount OF materials useful for the rr1u-
scum He made extensive collections Of
plants such as NOSES and similar forms
The land birds he found 10 resemble very
much those around Puget Sound but -hs
water birds were different ard more at
tracave. He collected over go OF these
representing fifty species. many OF which
are extremely rare The rarest o. all was
a pair Of rhin0ce ros auklets Of which
there are probably rot more than twenty
other specimens taken and preserved in
Ire world. The swiftes, flying and swim
ming bird In Alaska IS the Fnarhled muir
relet. 81 which twenty-five specimens were
obtained. Among other birds secured are
Ire violet green c~orno-ant, young - the
forke73-tailed petrol caucus gail kiftiwaka
gull. one PAR 81 re5-t roateA loon and
their yourg, crested and horned putans or
SEA parro's. pigeon ruillenpo's. sand ptners
wa}~-s four Canada geese ard many
others
The forests IN the vicirfty ~ S'tka are
surprise 70 the naturalist. The prefom-
nsfine tree a tha Stka spruce or p,res
sitkerS.s. re others being hern1ock. cedar
and some alie-s Not a. tree vas seen
above Vancouver isiand The sheen bAs~y
captured bv Prof Dvche vera counted
very rare, bat &, is found thar they ara
abundant about Cook inlet ard are used
ar~ely by the miners and prospectors fer
food
The stu.en. assembly hela the annual
election ct officers his week with TIE To-
lowing result. President Martin Ha--atS.
t4ce president Walter : Wheeler: secre-
farv Heartse Wood. treasurer. Albert e
Durham
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