. The Canadian field-naturalist. 11996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 131. Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, August 1925. P. A. Taverner and C. G. Harrold. (Reproduced courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, number 66835.) reports on his field work and collecting, it was good that he could first have a talk with Taverner.''^ For Taverner his field work for 1925 reached an enjoyable climax in his first visit to California. He spent a week studying the ornithological collections at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bishop's collection at Pasadena, Los Angeles where he saw interesting speci
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 11996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 131. Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, August 1925. P. A. Taverner and C. G. Harrold. (Reproduced courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, number 66835.) reports on his field work and collecting, it was good that he could first have a talk with Taverner.''^ For Taverner his field work for 1925 reached an enjoyable climax in his first visit to California. He spent a week studying the ornithological collections at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bishop's collection at Pasadena, Los Angeles where he saw interesting specimens. He also made a num- ber of personal contacts that were likely to be of value to the museum. While at Pasadena he did some 'collecting including a jaeger. He returned to Ottawa :by train via the Grand Canyon, Detroit and Toronto.^° At the New York meeting of the AOU in November 1925 Taverner and Anderson went, with Bishop's permission, to visit his series of gulls in his bird house at his home in New Haven, Connecticut. Writing to Bishop about the AOU meeting he noted the lessening influence of the Audubonites and explained, "So many of the old sentimental extremists have taken museum jobs and attained a better balanced view — Cleves and Harper for ; Bishop had a fine collection, just the kind of col- lection that they needed as a foundation for a National Museum. "I certainly wish that such a collection were available for work in cooperation with ours ... If we could only induce you to come to Canada it would be a National benefaction".^' It was a nice idea, but nothing more. In addition to working on his book, field expedi- tions and keeping up a regular correspondence, Taverner still took an active part in the Ottawa Field- Naturalists' Club. Although he was not officially the editor of The Canadian Field-Naturalist in the 1920s he wrote regularly in its issues, gave his opinion on ornithological manuscripts submitted, and edited various
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