NATURE NOTES FROM ACADIA

OUR NEW HOME

Through the interest of Superintendent George B. Dorr, the Park Naturalist's headquarters have been moved to a new and far more suitable location in the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor. This office is a large private room furnished with a desk, bookcases, file cabinet, worktables, and blackboard. Two framed Audubon bird paintings and over a hundred reference and reading books on natural history subjects, loaned by Mr. Dorr, add tremendously to the attractiveness and usefulness of this room. Two 9 x 12 grass rugs and a large fireplace screen have also been added through Mr. Dorris interest.

Only the choicest of our specimens are exhibited here, the remainder being stored in our old headquarters in the Information Office. Mounted specimens of a White-tail Deer fawn, a Pine Marten, Bald Eagle, Hawk Owl, and Wood Duck are placed about the room. In the garden just outside this office a bird-feeding platform has been erected. Meetings of the newly-organized Mount Desert Island Bird Club are held in this new headquarters.

- Margaret Stupka