The Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity (q.v.) is holding its yearly open house all day on February 8th. Collections of mites, mussels, meerkats, and meadowlarks will be on view. In the bird range a display of the efforts to bio-engineer a new population of passenger pigeons will be on view. The Ohio Historical Society was implored by researchers elsewhere to furnish archaeological bone samples to furnish DNA, etc. for the latter project, but demurred, wisely in my view. Which reminds me that Joel Greenberg's excellent new book on the passenger pigeon, "A Feathered River Across the Sky," came out two weeks ago, and Ohio plays a prominent part in this vanished bird's story. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]