CHAPTER IX 

 NOTEBOOKS AND COLLECTIONS 



CONCERNING Solomon's knowledge of 

 Natural History we are told that it 

 was wide and varied. { He spake of 

 trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, 

 even unto the hyssop that springeth out of 

 the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, 

 and of creeping things, and of fishes.' In the 

 seven preceding chapters I have introduced 

 the reader to information as varied, though 

 not so extensive, as that of the wise king. 

 We have discussed plants, from the royal 

 oak to the lowly scorpion-grass ; eggs of birds 

 from the hawk to the wren ; and a multitude 

 of flying and creeping things. The time has 

 now arrived for consideration of notebooks 

 to record observations, and collections to 

 preserve specimens. 



A naturalist, as has been repeatedly 



