25-1-1995
Dear
Bill,
I
send you the book edited in occasion of the Jubilaeum of Ornithophilia
in Utrecht; I think that you will appreciate this history of a century of
Netherlands poultry life, adorned by Van Gink's illustrations, painting's
masterpieces and synthesis of the animal's characteristics.
This
book is a very small thing comparing with your interest for all my problems
and the very precious advice.
Also
I send the catalogue of our recent national show. From the animals number you
may understand that the poultry fanciers here in Italy are very few, because
the love for the animals isn't a tradition as in the North European countries.
Our federal association is one year old and our President, who send the
catalogue to you with his compliments, is a very serious person. I think that
he will resuscitate the Italian aviculture, very active in the beginning of
the century.
Finally
I send the card of the friend of my cousin, who is very active also during the
night. I think that when the atmospheric conditions are appropriate, you will
contact him by radio.
I
profit to send other things: a page demonstrating how many fonts are available
for the laser printer and every font may be enlarged 72 points, as the animals
in the Punnett's square, made by Eduardo. The cock in this page isn't a font,
but a vectorized image, which may be enlarged without seeing the dots of the
non vectorized images.
The
other pages are a test for the text editor Microsoft Word release 6.0, and is
an exercise to learn this text editor; the must difficult part in this job is
joining text and graphics. But slowly I will be winner! These pages are few
fragments of the future genetics’ book and will be given to the participants
to the Poultry Judge School, which begins in march and where I will be the
genetics’ teacher!
Other
interesting experience is the page concerning the Sundaic, from the
Finsterbusch’s book. With the scanner now it's possible capture the text in
various languages and store in electronic file for manipulations. The acronym
of this method is OCR (Optical Character Recognition), very useful. During the
transcription, the computer verify also the orthography! Miracles of the
electronic art!
In
the past years, when my wife was living, my hobby was the macrophotography,
and I was processing the slides myself and colour printing from negative. I
have collected many subjects of the mountain's flora, flowers of my area and
even insects, including butterflies. Now my macrophotography is limited to the
fowls!
The
last week I saw in TV a movie picture ambiented in NSW at the beginning of
this century; the subject was the rescue of the farm of miss Richard (?), with
horses, desert, sea, hills... A dream for my eyes, which a day I will realise!
I
am waiting for the photocopies and I thank you very much.
A
little consideration: when I will have your age, I would have your energy and
perseverance in writing letters to the friends!