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lies in which he is chiefly interested. He has been an active explorer 

 in Spain, and the collections made there by himself are the chief at- 

 tractions of his cabinet. Henry E. Dresser, Esq., a London merchant, 

 and author of a magnificent work on the birds of Europe, now in 

 course of publication, possesses, at his residence on South Norwood 

 Hill, the most complete collection of the eggs of the birds of Europe 

 probably in existence. It is admirably arranged, containing many fine 

 suites of the least common kinds, and very many species not in any 

 other collection. 



The collections in oology, made by the late Mr. Jol)n WoUey, the 

 indefatigable explorer of the ornithology of the arctic regions of Eu- 

 rope, were bequeathed to Prof. Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, who 

 has illustrated them in a publication of great elegance. This collec- 

 tion is of great scientific as well as pecuniary value. Its series of 

 specimens of some of the rarest arctic eggs are immense. The mar- 

 ket money-value of one of these series that of the waxwing at its 

 lowest computation, is not less than 100. 



Within the close of the venerable Cathedral of Durham, the 

 writer was privileged to examine, in the cabinet of Rev. Canon Tris- 

 tram, the largest collection of eggs it was his good fortune to see in Eu- 

 rope. This gentleman is an excellent ornithologist, has been a great 

 traveler and explorer in America, North Africa, Palestine, Syria, 

 and elsewhere, and his collections, which number over IjVOO species, 

 have been largely taken by his own hand. 



And here our space compels us to close our narrative, leaving much 

 that was to us exceedingly attractive unsaid and undescribed. Though 

 disappointing in certain instances, our study of European collections, 

 as a whole, incomplete as it too often was, and all too hurried as to 

 the time allotted, was ever full of instruction, interest, and enjoyment. 







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IT is very probable that as we obtain a fuller and more accurate 

 command of facts relating to the production of wealth under per- 

 fectly free conditions in countries like our own, where intelligence is 

 widely diffused, it will be found that the methods of most efficient 

 production are those which necessarily contain within themselves the 

 methods of most effectual distribution. It has been customary to as- 

 sume, or infer, that the laws regulating the production of wealth were 

 one thin Of, and the laws reojulating its distribution were another; so 

 much so, indeed, that while legislation could not interfere with pro- 

 duction without doing harm, it might and ought, on grounds of justice 

 and duty, to regulate distribution. There is strong reason to believe 



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