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impetuous boy. I hope that the reviewers will 

 be charitable. Of course I am no judge, but I 

 should guess that for a translation the work is 

 as good as it can be. Is it not so ? ' 



To the same. 



' Bournemouth : January 27, 1890. 



' To a scientific man as you are, the utter 

 confusion in ornithological order must be most 

 perplexing and irritating. It is sufficiently so 

 to me who have no pretensions to science, and 

 the bitter animosities amongst the classifiers 

 are most distressing, but, as Tennyson says, 

 "I know my words are wild.". . . Seebohm has 

 always been more than civil and obliging to me 

 personally. I have a high opinion of him as a 

 bird man, and when he chooses he is a very 

 pleasant writer.' 



To the same. 



1 Bournemouth : March 21, 1890. 



' There can be no doubt that Booth's Collec- 

 tion is very much better where it now is than 

 elsewhere. I do not know what the testamen- 

 tary alternative is in the case of the Brit. Museum 



