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these chrysalids were obtained perfect specimens 

 with not a scale displaced and not a mark to 

 deface them. Mr. Edwards's son shared with 

 me my interest in the birds, and we collected 

 together. The summer wore away with many 

 pleasant occupations. 



One of the first things I did on arriving in 

 Cambridge was to show my collections to Mr. 

 Allen ; he seemed much impressed by them, for 

 they included many birds that we knew but little 

 about at that time. He drew me out on the 

 subject of the summer's work, found what kind 

 of notes had been made, and asked me to elabo- 

 rate them. This I did, and formulated the re- 

 sults when I was twenty years old in a paper 

 read before the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and published as a part of the proceedings 

 of their society in October, 1872. It was entitled 

 " Partial List of the Summer Birds of Kanawha 

 County, West Virginia." The paper in question 

 is what is technically known as a faunal list, and 

 in 1872 few lists of this character had gone to 

 press in this country, though now their number 

 is legion. This was my first original contribution 

 to science, and the initial paper published by any 

 member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, for 

 at this time the club had not issued a proceed- 

 ing of its own, the first bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Club appearing several years later. The mem- 



