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This intellectual pleasure deserves high rank. 

 It is true that one's aesthetic sense may be grat- 

 ified and one may receive great enjoyment from 

 birds and flowers without knowledge of their 

 structure or names. But on the other hand it is 

 not true that a study of structure and the rec- 

 ognition of the species in the field is a detriment 

 to the pure enjoyment of these wonderful crea- 

 tures of nature. The musician who understands 

 the musical composition of a symphony and 

 whose ear is attuned to all its finer points, re- 

 ceives at a concert infinitely more pleasure than 

 one who is ignorant of these matters. One who 

 has studied flowers and birds and is able to dis- 

 tinguish the exact- kind and the significance of 

 form and markings, sees far more of their beauty 

 than one not so trained and he obtains correspond- 

 ingly more enjoyment. The untrained observer 

 often fails to see the bird or flower at all, and if 

 it is called to his attention, sees it but imperfectly. 

 The enjoyment shown by naturalists — and I re- 

 fer to the out-of-doors and not to the closet 

 type — is evidenced in their writings. Wilson, 

 Audubon, Darwin and Wallace, Gilbert 



