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In February, 188G, Harper & Brothers, of New York, published 

 " Upland and Meadow," a volume on the same general style as the 

 preceding, but in no instance repeating the subject-matter of the 

 earlier volume. The two books give a nearly complete account of the 

 fauna of a New Jersey farm ; an account which will be really com- 

 pleted by the publication of a third volume, treating largely of botan- 

 ical features. 



An idea of the quality of Dr. Abbott's books — the true flavor can 

 be enjoyed in its perfection only in reading the books themselves — is 

 given in the London " Academy's " (May 1, 188C) notice of " Upland 

 and Meadow," which concludes : 



" Books like this make us more interested in America than do the 

 countless volumes of travelers. There is that charm of freshness, that 

 power of interesting us, as much as the writer was himself interested, 

 that frank inquisitiveness — though it may smack a little of the mod- 

 ern interviewer, carried to the world of upland, meadow, river, and 

 trees, taking stealthy views at the midnight side of Nature with a dark- 

 lantern — which make the book attractive from beginning: to end, 

 which make us read every page, and make it, by our keeping it as a 

 book of reference, memorable. It abounds not only in facts, but in 

 fancy ; and so a boy from school or a world-wise father will find that 

 it adds to his joys in the open air, or reveals the wonderful life about 

 his feet." 



Dr. Abbott is a corresponding member of the Boston Society of Nat- 

 ural History ; of the New York Academy of Sciences ; of the Linnsean 

 Society of New York ; of the Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts ; of the Anthropological Society of "Washing- 

 ton, D. C. ; of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadel- 

 phia ; and of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa ; 

 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North, 

 Copenhagen. 



