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of provisions is less injurious to the health of the soldier than per- 

 turbations of heat-economy through want of suitable pieces of cloth- 

 ing. Our clothes are weapons with which civilized man fights against 

 the atmosphere as far as it is inimical, the means by which he subju- 

 gates this his element. It lies in our nature, in our instinct, in our 

 self-respect, to have good clothes, which ought to be also pleasing to 

 the eye ; but we ought to become more conscious of their purpose. 

 Ornament must be the minor consideration, and the tailor ought not 

 to hold his scissors as a sceptre over the hygienic purposes of all 

 dress. 



Our period strives after novelty in all directions, also after new 

 forms and styles in dress, architecture, and so on ; but nothing new 

 will be created with our old points of view remaining. New points 

 of view can only be gained by new and increased insight into the 

 functions of the dress and the house. This function must determine 

 the form, and will not be ascertained without theoretical study. It 

 was not till we had mastered the theory of the overshot and under- 

 shot water-wheel that the turbine could be invented. 



The influence of theory on practical development is much greater 

 than is usually supposed and conceded. The discovery and settle- 

 ment of the laws of mechanics had to precede their application to 

 engines, railways, steamboats, and so on. There would be no diffi- 

 culty in showing why the great inventions of Watt and Stephenson 

 were not made at an earlier period, and that they were the fruit of 

 seeds which were buried in the theoretical investigations of Coperni- 

 cus, Kepler, and Newton. 



Perhaps our future means for keeping our heatdiousehold will be 

 as different in style and appearance from our present ones as a turbine 

 from an old mill-wheel, or a steam-engine from a horse-wheel. 



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Br Professor SAMUEL LOCK WOOD. 



DISCUSSING the varied exhibits made of the natural sciences in 

 the late Exposition at Philadelphia, Forest and Stream pays a 

 high compliment to a collection of water-color paintings of "The 

 Birds of New Jersey." These paintings are the work of G. B. Hard- 

 enbergh, a youth in New Bi-unswick, who, having heard, in the Rut- 

 gers College Grammar-School, a course of lectures on birds, by the 

 writer of this, became at once an enthusiast, and, with the spirit 

 of a devotee, gave himself up to the study of birds in their native 

 haunts. By wood and stream, in all seasons, the young artist natu- 

 ralist watches his subject, learns its habits, gets its attitudes, then 



