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in the way just given, and why? Because all the Brewsters have the same 

 origin or source, for the ancestor of every one who has borne that name, 

 without a single exception, first appeared in the Mayflower. 



With the name that has given our friend so much trouble, the case is 

 slightly different, and those who bear it are all right, no matter under 

 what guise of orthography they appear, even should it be the one assumed 

 in Boston, for, having sprung from different roots or sources, in this 

 respect unlike the Brewsters, all the spellings are perfectly correct, each 

 after its own kind in strict accordance with philological rules. I trust 

 the faded memories of student days, in spite of his occasional unphilo- 

 logical surroundings, will assert themselves in renewed force, and permit 

 our esteemed friend to perceive and appreciate the clearness of the above 

 explanation. 



But I cannot close, Mr. Editor, without expressing my very great satis- 

 faction at beholding so eminent a member of the A. O. U. Committee on 

 Nomenclature a-gunning for blunders. May he continue his meritorious 

 search, and may it be attended with more success than in this his first 

 effort, and should he again desire my assistance, I could point him to a 

 field near to his hand where, without stint, he could gather trophies 

 worthy of his prowess. 



D. G. Elliot. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Joseph Wolf, the eminent bird artist and animal painter, died on the 

 20th of last April at the age of 79 years. He was born at Moertz, near 

 Coblenz, Rhenish Prussia, in June, 1820; he was the son of a farmer, 

 but his powers of observation and talents as a draughtsman soon 

 attracted attention, and eventually won for him the reputation of being 

 "the best all-round animal painter that ever lived." Says the London 

 'Field': "The first work which brought the artist's name prominently 

 before the scientific world was Riippell's ' Systematische Uebersicht der 

 Vogel Nordost Afrika's,' published in 1845, in which some fifty African 

 birds are depicted in attitudes which contrast strongly with the stiff and 

 unnatural positions in which previous artists were wont to portray their 

 subjects. We look upon these illustrations as instituting the renaissance 

 period in ornithological drawing. In 1850 appeared Temminck and 

 Schlegel's quarto volumes on the fauna of Japan, which, with Wolf's 

 coloured plates, still constitute one of the best illustrated works on nat- 

 ural history. Quickly following this came Schlegel's grand ' Traite de 

 Fauconnerie,' in folio, with life-size portraits by Wolf of all the Hawks 

 employed by falconers. . , . The late G. R. Gray's standard work, in 



