Excerpt from Catalogue of the Collection of Birds's Eggs in the British Museum, Vol. 5: Natural History Bowdler Sharpe at the end of 1909. The administration of the Bird Room, the incorporation of large collections and the re arrangement of the material already in hand, the planning of new Expeditions and the conduct of the voluminous correspondence involved by these fresh departures, added to the duty of dealing with the ceaseless stream of enquirers who visit or write to the Bird Room, might in themselves have been sufficient to have filled up all the available time. Mr. Ogilvie-grant has done his work under considerable difficulties, and the delay has been unavoidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.