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The thrush which you have described, and which you kindly 

 offer to send me, may be new, but perhaps you are not acquainted 

 with the Turdus Nanus of my work, to which it appears, if not the 

 same, probably a new variety? Nous verrons. 



Please to collect all the Shrews, Mice, (field or wood), rats, bats, 

 Squirrels, etc., and put them in a jar in common Rum, not whiskey, 

 brandy or alcohol. All of the latter spirits are sure to injure the 

 subjects. 



Believe me, my Dear Sir, ,, r . . 



Your mend and servant, 



JOHN J. AUDUBON. 



Under date of January 23, 1841, Baird notes that he 

 attended a meeting of the Periodical Library Association 

 of Carlisle, a society of about 33 members. "Some of 

 the works subscribed for were Loudon's Magazine of 

 Natural History, Silliman's Journal, the London Athe- 

 naeum, the four English Reviews, Blackwood's Magazine, 

 Dublin University Magazine, the Boston Medical Journal, 

 the American Medical Magazine, Buel's Cultivator, the 

 Farmers Cabinet, the North American Review, the 

 Journal of The Franklin Institute, Hunt's Merchants' 

 Magazine, the Magazine of Horticulture and Botany, the 

 Musical Visitor, the Metropolitan and Parley's Magazine. 

 Each member subscribes three dollars." 



In how many of our towns of five thousand inhabitants 

 to-day could a society of this sort be found which had 

 made such a selection of standard periodicals? 



He concludes the record of the month by mentioning 

 that he had walked eighty-three miles during January. 



On his eighteenth birthday, February 3, 1841, he 

 notes that his height in the morning was six feet, but in 

 the evening, after walking ten miles carrying a forty-pound 

 pack, it was only five feet eleven and a quarter inches. 

 About this time, probably owing to the pressure of 



