-cancels, post marks, first-day covers — all considered specialized collections. "Lives of great men, thus remind us" so says the poet, Longfellow. During the term of Calvin Coolidge, the thirty-first president of the United States, a proclamation was issued that from February twenty-second until November

invited him to �his brother's law office in the Home Bank building. "Lincoln," said Fell, "I have been east as far as Boston, and up into New Hampshire, traveling in all the New England states, save Maine. I have been in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi- gan and Indiana, and everywhere I

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years