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favorite study, and certainly no one could hav 
such rare opportunities, 
With a full appreciation of all that I aver, I claim for my la 
mented friend, that as a general ornithologist, especially in regard 
to his knowledge of the forms of the Old World, Mr. Cassin had 
ourag e 
So perfectly familiar was he with the forms of the Old World, 
that stablished new genera 
described new species as readily in Africa as i America, and war 
Mr. in has been for many years an active member of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, His valuable contr 
roe have enriched the pages of its Journal, and added a world- 
wide reputation to its Proceedings, His activity and zeal in the 
ause of science have aided to around that institution munr 
papers, descriptive, analytic and SY 
ue of the Royal Society of Londo’) 
by Mr. Cassin to the “ sentir 
nly a portion o are 
r logical omens A Fis more elaborate 
1 his Birds of California and Texas, a0 octave 
vings of fifty of the 
de 
Audubon; the Ornithology 
