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feeling, can find any pleasure in ornamenting herself with, a 

 dead bird, whose joyous and harmless life has been cruelly extin- 

 guished for her sake. Yet it is a sad fact that thousands of 

 women go around with decorations thus procured, and hundreds 

 of thousands of lovely and useful birds are killed for them. 

 Against this neither words directed to the understanding, lessons 

 on the value of birds, nor warnings appealing to the heart, are of 

 effect ; human vanity prevails over all, and triumphant fashion 

 comes off victor. Nothing promises to be effective against it but 

 a positive legal prohibition. Will not our intelligent, warm- 

 hearted women come out with tact and decision against this 

 abuse, and exert their influence upon the wider circle of those 

 who are less judicious but mean well ? 



Happily, it is among most men only thoughtlessness and con- 

 sequent indifference, and in only a narrow circle sheer selfishness, 

 that has permitted the neglect or refusal of effective protection 

 to birds. Translated for the Popular Science Monthly from Ueber 

 Land und Meer. 



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SKETCH OF GEORGE LINCOLN GOODALE. 



QEORGE LINCOLN GOODALE was born at Saco, York 

 County, Maine, August 3, 1839. His father, Hon. S. L. Good- 

 ale, for about twenty years the Secretary of the Maine Board of 

 Agriculture, is widely known as the author of a standard work on 

 the Breeding of Domestic Animals, and as an agricultural chem- 

 ist. His mother was a lineal descendant of Rebecca Towne 

 (Nourse), of witchcraft times in Salem. 



During his preparation for college, he served as apprentice in 

 an apothecary-store, his grandfather's business, and acquired a 

 good knowledge of the pharmacy of that day. He entered 

 Amherst College in 1856, and graduated in 1860 in the class with 

 Prof. Estey and President Francis A. Walker. After graduation, 

 he remained for a year connected with the college as assistant in 

 chemistry and botany. His teacher in the latter department was 

 the late Prof. Tuckerman. In Tuckerman's Catalogue of the 

 Plants of Amherst and Vicinity the author refers to the excur- 

 sions made with Mr. Goodale during the years from 1856 to 1861. 

 Among the other teachers then in Amherst College who exerted 

 a marked influence upon the tastes and work of Mr. Goodale 

 should be mentioned the late President Edward Hitchcock and 

 his son Charles, now of Dartmouth, Prof. C. U. Shepard the 

 mineralogist, President Seelye, and the venerable Prof. William 

 S. Tyler. 



Being a rapid short-hand writer, he was at one period in his 



