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mens to the department pathologist. The field work will be supple- 
mented with investigative work at the game farm, using various 
species of animals. It is only through scientific research that we will 
be able to answer questions such as the one above. 
LAST RECORDS OF DEER IN WALWORTH COUNTY 
(Taken from an article by the late N. Hollister, recently of the Biologi-

cal Survey, published previously in the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural

History Society, Vol. 6, Nos. 3-4, in 1910.) 
Authentic accounts of any of the larger mammals in central or 
southern Wisconsin are of great value and must be collected soon if 
they are to be preserved with accuracy as to dates and circumstances. 
Many species are already gone from the entire state and of some of 
these there is not a local specimen in existence nor a specific record 
in literature. Even in the extreme northern counties conspicuous 
species are now rapidly disappearing and each record of the occur- 
rence or capture is worthy of note. 
Wild deer were exterminated in southeastern Wisconsin nearly 60 
years ago. During various visits at home in the past few years I 
have been collecting from some of the old residents data relating to 
their occurrence in the vicinity of Delavan, Walworth county, and be- 
lieve that the information thus gathered will prove of interest. 
Deer were formerly abundant in Walworth county and in the early 
forties plenty still remained. The late Silas Bowker of Delavan told 
me of often seeing numbers of them between Delavan lake and Geneva 
lake, which locality he claimed was the best deer country in Wal- 
worth county. Others tell of many in the northwestern part of the 
county, and it seems probable that though deer were generally dis- 
tributed throughout the county, the vicinities of Delavan lake and 
Richmond were their favorite resorts. I. P. Larnard, of Delavan, 
tells me that Win. Hollister, deceased, saw about 50 in one herd on 
the edge of the Big Marsh, between Delavan and Whitewater, in 1842. 
After this date the deer rapidly decreased. In 1846, Mr. Larnard 
shot one from a bunch of five or six in what is now Isham's grove, 
on the outskirts of Delavan. After killing this one he rapidly loaded 
his rifle and snapped three caps in an endeavor to shoot a fine buck 
which came out and stood in plain sight during the whole perform- 
ance but trotted off, to his great disgust, before he could find a cap 
which would explode. This, Mr. Larnard believes, was the last deer 
killed in the vicinity of Delavan, though a few were seen from time 
to time during the next few years. Mr. Larnard was a keen sports- 
man in those days and probably kept better account of such matters 
in that region than any man now living. 
In 1849 or 1850, my father, K. N. Hollister, and his brother, U. S. 
Hollister, saw three deer in the Big Woods, five miles west of Delavan, 
and a year or two later saw two more crossing Rock prairie and tak- 
ing to the woods near the same place. A. B. Hore, of Delavan, last 
saw deer at Lake Nine, Richmond, as nearly as he can figure, in 1852;