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each specimen was examined, its sali- 

 ent features were noted and sketched 

 on the back of an ever-ready prescrip- 

 tion blank. When interrupted he 

 laid his unfinished sketch awaj' with 

 the specimen, to resume his observa- 

 tion and complete his study at the first 

 opportunity,, without any doubt as to 

 what had been seen in the first in- 

 stance. And so from individual to 

 variety, from variety to species, from 

 species to genus, and from genus to 

 family, his observations were prefer v- 

 ed in memoranda which facilitated the 

 resumption of interrupted work at any 

 time and lapse of time. In no other 

 way could the odd moments between 

 the daily calls and occupations of a 

 busy physician have contributed so 

 much to botanical knowledge. In no 

 other way could his seemingly small 

 opportunity for investigation have 

 been converted into a great one." 



The busy people, who employ every 

 minute of their spare time to complete 

 some observation or work, are mainly 

 the ones who accomplish results of im- 

 portance. Those who have plenty of 

 time are not likely to appreciate its 

 value, and let it pass unused. The 

 botanical opportunities of American 

 students are great, and the subject 

 ever widening in its scope. If the in- 

 dividual student will look about him, 

 form some systematic plan for work, 

 pursue that plan, record accurately by 

 notes and drawings everything e.xam- 

 ined aud read, he will meet with such 

 success as to make him satisfied with 

 the results, and to give him interest 

 enough to continue investigations at 

 leisure moments on some particular 

 phase of the study. But the worker 

 who is isolated, away from the labora- 

 tory and library, must of necessity 

 confine his work to larger forms of 

 plant life, and more of external char- 

 acteristics than to microscopical struct- 

 ure. He must consider his opportun- 

 ities and plan his work accordingly. 

 But the study of the book prescribed, 

 if unaccompanied by such work as has 

 been suggested, or by works of refer- 

 ence, must be very unsatisfactory and 

 not productive of good results. 



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A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



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NOTES. 



Collectors interested in Birds and 

 Eggs should read the notice of Chap- 

 man's Birds of Eastern North America 

 in another column. We have in our 

 work discarded the antiquated works 

 of 1 5 to 30 years ago and take up the 

 new with joy, covering as it does every 

 phase of the subject. While limited 

 to Eastern Birds western collectors 

 will find it one of the most valuable 

 manuals of modern times. 



Reminiscenses of a Trip to 

 Schoharie. 



(part v.) 



At the commencement of the Rev- 

 olution, the whole country now em- 

 braced within the limits of Schoharie 

 county, contained scarcely a thousand 

 inhabitants; the greater part of them 

 lived in the valley of the Schoharie. 



In the last paper was given a short 

 histor\- of its settlement. Their ilfe^ 



