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Texas Collection
workings of the Baltimore Convention and the importance of
the Texas delegation in securing Woodrow Wilson's nomina-
tion. Dr. Link contributed "The Wilson Movement in Texas,
1910-1912" in the Quarterly for October, 1944.
A recent communication from him states:
I have meant to write you since I received the tentative list for the
Handbook of Texas and tell you that I think what the Association is
planning to do is splendid. We certainly need reference works like that
in every state (of course we already have, as you know, plenty of inade-
quate local biography collections and the like), and perhaps if you and
your colleagues push the idea through to fruition other states will follow
the lead of Texas.
Judge John M. Spellman, nationally known patent attorney
of Dallas, died June 16. He was an enthusiastic member of
the Association. He was born in Dallas in 1877 and attended
Washington University in Washington, D. C., graduating in
1897. He began the practice of law in Dallas two years later
and was counsel in notable cases involving patent laws. He
became known as an authority on the resources of Texas and
was chairman of the Natural Resources Commission of the
1936-1937 Centennial.
Judge Spellman was a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution and the immediate past president of the state society.
He was also a member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas
and had held the highest offices in various Scottish Rite bodies.
The following vignette was written by Lieutenant Andrew
F. Rolle while he was en route to the Battle of Kwajelein in
the Marshall Islands. Rolle has been a student of Robert Glass
Cleland at Occidental and of John Walton Caughey at the
University of California at Los Angeles. Rolle here demon-
strates how American culture has been transposed to the Pacific
scene. This sketch probably points to opportunities for the
detailed comparison of western cattle culture with ranching
as it now exists in the Islands. Rolle may now be addressed
care of Staff and Faculty, Camp Ritchie, Maryland.
RANCHO TROPICAL
High atop the lava slopes and mossy crags of Mauna Kea on the Island
of Hawaii plods a herd of shaggy wild cattle, foraging upon a tropical
pasturage in their daily roamings. Forty years ago a native estimated307
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946, periodical, 1946; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146056/m1/340/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.