The Montana State College

of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

Department of Biology,

R. A. Cooley, Professor of Zoology and Entomology

State Entomologist

W.W. Jones, Instructor in Botany

 

Bozeman, Montana. Dec. 16, 1905.

 

Prof. Lawrence Bruner,

Lincoln, Nebraska.

Dear Prof. Bruner:

There appears to be a growing interest among our students in bird life and I think I shall subscribe to a bird magazine for use of the students and am writing to you to ask your advice as to what one to get. This magazine I want for beginners in ornithology and want it to be general popularity and not too elementary. I wish it to stimulate the scientific spirit among the pupils, at the same time a love of bird life. I will be grateful for your opinion.

Yours truly,

R.A. Cooley

Nebraska Ornithologists Union.

Office of the President.

Wilson Tout, Dunbar, President.

Miss Agnes Dawson, Omaha, V. Pres.

Miss Anna Caldwell, Lincoln, Cor. Sec.

Myron H. Swenk, Lincoln, Rec. Sec.

F. H. Shoemaker, Omaha, Treas.

Prof. Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln.

Dr. Rob't H. Walcott, Lincoln.

August Eiche, Lincoln

Ex. Com

 

Dunbar Nebr. Dec. 20 1905.

O.K.

 

Prof. Lawrence Bruner

Lincoln

Dear Sir

I am sending out a number of letters of inquiry and have had the replies addressed

Pres. Nebr. Ornithologists Union

Lincoln Nebr.

 

Station A

If they reach your office please hold them for me. I will be in Lincoln Saturday of this week and shall call at the University for you.

Very truly,

Wilson Tout

Lincoln, Nebr., Dec. 23, 1905.

Prof. R. A. Cooley,

Bozeman, Mont.

My Dear Cooley:-

Two years ago today we had the pleasure of your company for Christmas dinner. Only wish the same could be repeated today.

Am glad to hear that you are beginning to push the bird side of nature study. There several good magazines published in this country on Ornithology but the one best suited to general reading and at the same time sufficiently scientific, would be the little magazine called Bird Lore, published by Macmillan Co., Harrisburg, Pa. There is another very good magazine published by Chas Read, Worchester, Mass., entitled American Ornithology, or Bird Magazine. This is a little more popular than the former, but is also sufficiently scientific to be correct and is a little more profusely illustrated. Each of these are one dollar a year. The former comes in six parts and the latter in twelve numbers per year. Back numbers of both can be obtained. For a library and for more complex subjects of Ornithology, the Auk is more desirable. It comes in connection with a membership fee of the American Ornithologists' Union, or subscription, $3 per year.

Yours very truly,